Function

Dexfind_program_in_path

unstable since: 1.1

Declaration [src]

DexFuture*
dex_find_program_in_path (
  const char* program
)

Description [src]

Locates the first executable named program in the user’s path.

This runs g_find_program_in_path() on a dedicated thread.

Available since: 1.1

Parameters

program

Type: const char*

The name of the executable such as “grep”.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: DexFuture

A DexFuture that resolves to a string containing the path or rejects with error.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.