FILE* if the file was successfully opened, or null if
an error occurred
fopen
fn
void * fopen(string filename, string mode)A wrapper for the stdio fopen() function. The fopen() function opens a file and associates a new stream with it.
Because file descriptors are specific to the C library on Windows, and a file descriptor is part of the FILE struct, the FILE* returned by this function makes sense only to functions in the same C library. Thus if the GLib-using code uses a different C library than GLib does, the FILE* returned by this function cannot be passed to C library functions like fprintf() or fread().
See your C library manual for more details about fopen().
As close() and fclose() are part of the C library, this implies that it is currently impossible to close a file if the application C library and the C library used by GLib are different. Convenience functions like [glib.global.fileSetContentsFull] avoid this problem.
Parameters
filename | a pathname in the GLib file name encoding (UTF-8 on Windows) |
mode | a string describing the mode in which the file should be opened |
Returns
A