fileReadLink

Reads the contents of the symbolic link filename like the POSIX readlink() function.

The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames. Use glib.global.filenameToUtf8 to convert it to UTF-8.

The returned string may also be a relative path. Use glib.global.buildFilename to convert it to an absolute path:

g_autoptr(GError) local_error = NULL;
g_autofree gchar *link_target = g_file_read_link ("/etc/localtime", &local_error);

if (local_error != NULL)
  g_error ("Error reading link: %s", local_error->message);

if (!g_path_is_absolute (link_target))
  {
    g_autofree gchar *absolute_link_target = g_build_filename ("/etc", link_target, NULL);
    g_free (link_target);
    link_target = g_steal_pointer (&absolute_link_target);
  }