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VLCWrapper - A Little C++-wrapper Around libvlc

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An article on wrapping libvlc (VLC media player) in a C++-class
/*****************************************************************************
 * vlc_fs.h: File system helpers
 *****************************************************************************
 * Copyright © 2006-2010 Rémi Denis-Courmont
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 *****************************************************************************/

#ifndef VLC_FS_H
#define VLC_FS_H 1

/**
 * \file
 * Those functions convert file paths from UTF-8 to the system-specific
 * encoding (especially UTF-16 on Windows). Also, they always mark file
 * descriptor with the close-on-exec flag.
 */

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>

VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_open, ( const char *filename, int flags, ... ) LIBVLC_USED );
VLC_EXPORT( FILE *, vlc_fopen, ( const char *filename, const char *mode ) LIBVLC_USED );
VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_openat, ( int fd, const char *filename, int flags, ... ) LIBVLC_USED );

VLC_EXPORT( DIR *, vlc_opendir, ( const char *dirname ) LIBVLC_USED );
VLC_EXPORT( char *, vlc_readdir, ( DIR *dir ) LIBVLC_USED );
VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_loaddir, ( DIR *dir, char ***namelist, int (*select)( const char * ), int (*compar)( const char **, const char ** ) ) );
VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_scandir, ( const char *dirname, char ***namelist, int (*select)( const char * ), int (*compar)( const char **, const char ** ) ) );
VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_mkdir, ( const char *filename, mode_t mode ) );

VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_unlink, ( const char *filename ) );
VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_rename, ( const char *oldpath, const char *newpath ) );

#if defined( WIN32 ) && !defined( UNDER_CE )
# define stat _stati64
#endif

VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_stat, ( const char *filename, struct stat *buf ) );
VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_lstat, ( const char *filename, struct stat *buf ) );

VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_mkstemp, ( char * ) );

VLC_EXPORT( int, vlc_dup, ( int ) );
#endif

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