Gio.File.get_relative_path

### Method

# Gio Fileget_relative_path

#### Declaration [src]

    char*
    g_file_get_relative_path (
      GFile* parent,
      GFile* descendant
    )

#### Description [src]

Gets the path for `descendant` relative to `parent`.

This call does no blocking I/O.

#### Parameters

`descendant`

  Type: `GFile`

  Input `GFile`.

  The data is owned by the caller of the method.

#### Return value

Type: `char*`

String with the relative path from `descendant` to `parent`, or `NULL` if `descendant` doesn’t have `parent` as prefix. The returned string should be freed with `g_free()` when no longer needed.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be `NULL`.
The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.