Filesystem Modules

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Writing modules for the GNOME Virtual File System
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module-shared
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Module Callbacks (Module API) — interface to module callbacks for use by gnome-vfs modules

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.