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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-writing-modules.html">Writing Modules</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> - basic gnome-vfs module concepts</span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-method.html">gnome-vfs-method</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> - </span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-module.html">gnome-vfs-module</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> - </span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-module-shared.html">gnome-vfs-module-shared</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> - </span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-module-callback-module-api.html">gnome-vfs-module-callback-module-api</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> - invoking callbacks from a gnome-vfs module to ask the application for necessary information (authentication, ...)</span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-context.html">GnomeVFSContext</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> -
contexts allows modules to track thread usage and cancellation properly</span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-transform.html">gnome-vfs-transform</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> - </span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-parse-ls.html">gnome-vfs-parse-ls</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> - convenience functions for modules which want to parse a ls-like directory listing</span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-standard-callbacks.html">gnome-vfs-standard-callbacks</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> - standard callbacks for use by gnome-vfs module writers</span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-module-callback.html">gnome-vfs-module-callback</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> - functions used by apps if they want to answer to callback invocations by gnome-vfs modules</span>
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Modules are the mechanism by which GnomeVFS accesses different filesystems,
from http, to the local disk, to smb. Module authors must implement a simple
set of filesystem operations and can provide varying degrees of service (read-only,
read-write, seeking, etc). Modules are dynamically loaded based upon the URI
scheme passed into the high-level GnomeVFS APIs.
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