Re: nautilus & hidden files

[Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka ntfs-3g org>]

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, yelo_3 wrote:
> I'm new to GIO so I can't help you too much, but this is what I found.
> 
> It seems that the hidden attr is stored in GFileInfo*
> info->attributes->data[attr_id].value
> and you can set attributes using g_file_info_set_attribute

Unfortunately this doesn't help us, ntfs-3g developers. We need to know the 
specific system call(s): stat, getxattr, ioctl, etc. 

I think you need to dig a bit deeper into the GIO code.

Thanks,
	   Szaka

> This is how GIO queries for a hidden file, taken from glib2.0-2.18.1,
> file gio/gfileinfo.c
> 
> /**
>  * g_file_info_get_is_hidden:
>  * @info: a #GFileInfo.
>  *
>  * Checks if a file is hidden.
>  *
>  * Returns: %TRUE if the file is a hidden file, %FALSE otherwise.
>  **/
> gboolean
> g_file_info_get_is_hidden (GFileInfo *info)
> {
>   static guint32 attr = 0;
>   GFileAttributeValue *value;
> 
>   g_return_val_if_fail (G_IS_FILE_INFO (info), FALSE);
> 
>   if (attr == 0)
>     attr = lookup_attribute (G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_IS_HIDDEN);
> 
>   value = g_file_info_find_value (info, attr);
>   return (GFileType)_g_file_attribute_value_get_boolean (value);
> }
> 
> 
> static GFileAttributeValue *
> g_file_info_find_value (GFileInfo *info,
> 			guint32    attr_id)
> {
>   GFileAttribute *attrs;
>   int i;
> 
>   i = g_file_info_find_place (info, attr_id);
>   attrs = (GFileAttribute *)info->attributes->data;
>   if (i < info->attributes->len &&
>       attrs[i].attribute == attr_id)
>     return &attrs[i].value;
> 
>   return NULL;
> }
> 

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