[Bug 767268] Add missing filename type annotations

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767268

--- Comment #2 from Christoph Reiter (lazka) <reiter.christoph at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Sebastian Dröge (slomo) from comment #1)
> Review of attachment 329156 [details] [review]:
> 
> What is the exact difference between a string and a filename, other than the
> semantic difference? How is it handled differently, is the string encoding
> possibly different, ...?

A text string is valid utf-8 while a filename is a null terminated array of
bytes on Unix and valid utf-8 on Windows.

> ::: gst/gst.c
> @@ +318,3 @@
>   * @argc: (inout) (allow-none): pointer to application's argc
> + * @argv: (inout) (array length=argc) (element-type filename) (allow-none):
> + *        pointer to application's argv
> 
> Why is argv an array of "filenames"? It's arbitrary command line arguments

It just matches the semantics stated above, null terminated bytes on Unix,
valid utf-8 on Windows.

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