monitor

open fun monitor(flags: FileMonitorFlags, cancellable: Cancellable? = null): <Error class: unknown class><FileMonitor>

Obtains a file or directory monitor for the given file, depending on the type of the file.

If @cancellable is not null, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error %G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

Return

a #GFileMonitor for the given @file, or null on error. Free the returned object with g_object_unref().

Since

2.18

Parameters

flags

a set of #GFileMonitorFlags

cancellable

optional #GCancellable object, null to ignore