asynchronous file remove (was Re: VFS: Asynchronous file transfers)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 09:04 +0200, Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
> Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
> > Hi. You can use
> > 
> > 
> > gnome_vfs_async_xfer ()
> 
> Ah sorry, my bad. I was actually referring to the C++ wrappers of these 
> functions, located in Gnome::Vfs. I totally forgot to mention that.
> 
> I'm not sure who is maintaining these classes, but I noticed that 
> although Gnome::Vfs::Transfer seems to resemble pretty much all of the 
> functionality from the C API, the Gnome::Vfs::Async namespace doesn't. 

What do you mean? How doesn't it resemble the C API?

> It has a transfer method, which runs asynchronously, but e.g. an 
> asynchronous remove function is missing completely.

I don't see any asynchronous remove function in the C API. I'm CCing the
gnome-vfs list because those are the people who would know about this.

> That would however mean that I'd either not be able to cancel a 
> remove-in-progress, or mix my code with functions from the C API, which 
> I want to avoid.
> 
> Any idea who is in charge of the Gnome::Vfs::Async wrappers?
> 
> Sorry again for the confusion.

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