The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide

8.9 Miscellaneous Utilities

The functions in this section don't fit anywhere else in this chapter:

• char *gnome_vfs_get_local_path_from_uri(const char * uri_string )

  If uri_string is a file on the local file system, returns a newly allocated string with just that path .

• char *gnome_vfs_get_uri_from_local_path(const char * full_path )

  If full_path exists, prepends file:/// and returns the result as a newly allocated string. Otherwise, this function returns NULL .

• gboolean gnome_vfs_is_executable_command_string(const char * command )

  If command is in the current search path (the PATH environment variable), or if command is a full executable pathname, returns TRUE .

• GnomeVFSResult gnome_vfs_get_volume_free_space(const GnomeVFSURI * uri , GnomeFileSize * bytes_addr )

  Writes the number of free bytes in uri 's file system into * bytes_addr . This function works only if uri is on a local file system.

• char *gnome_vfs_icon_path_from_filename(const char * filename )

  Returns the full path of the icon file filename or NULL if GnomeVFS can't find the icon. This function can find files only in $(PREFIX)/share/pixmaps .