Function

GLibmkdir

since: 2.6

Declaration [src]

int
g_mkdir (
  const gchar* filename,
  int mode
)

Description [src]

A wrapper for the POSIX mkdir() function. The mkdir() function attempts to create a directory with the given name and permissions. The mode argument is ignored on Windows.

See your C library manual for more details about mkdir().

Available since: 2.6

Parameters

filename

Type: const gchar*

A pathname in the GLib file name encoding (UTF-8 on Windows)

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.

mode

Type: int

Permissions to use for the newly created directory.

Return value

Type: int

0 if the directory was successfully created, -1 if an error occurred.