InputStream.skip

Tries to skip count bytes from the stream. Will block during the operation.

This is identical to InputStream.read, from a behaviour standpoint, but the bytes that are skipped are not returned to the user. Some streams have an implementation that is more efficient than reading the data.

This function is optional for inherited classes, as the default implementation emulates it using read.

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned. If an operation was partially finished when the operation was cancelled the partial result will be returned, without an error.

class InputStream
ptrdiff_t
skip

Parameters

count size_t

the number of bytes that will be skipped from the stream

cancellable Cancellable

optional gio.Cancellable object, NULL to ignore.

Return Value

Type: ptrdiff_t

Number of bytes skipped, or -1 on error

Throws

GException on failure.