GIO (software) explained

GLib
GIO
Developer:The GNOME Project
Programming Language:C
Genre:System library
License:GNU Lesser General Public License

GIO (Gnome Input/Output) is a library, designed to present programmers with a modern and usable interface to a virtual file system. It allows applications to access local and remote files with a single consistent API, which was designed "to overcome the shortcomings of GnomeVFS" and be "so good that developers prefer it over raw POSIX calls."[1]

GIO serves as low-level system library for the GNOME Shell/GNOME/GTK software stack and is being developed by The GNOME Project. It is maintained as a separate library,, but it is bundled with GLib. GIO is free and open-source software released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Features

Beyond these, GIO provides facilities for file monitoring, asynchronous I/O and filename completion. In addition to the interfaces, GIO provides implementations for the local case. Implementations for various network file systems are provided by the GVfs package as loadable modules.

See also

References

  1. Web site: GIO Reference Manual.
  2. Web site: xdgmime in GIO git .
  3. Web site: inotify in GIO git .
  4. Web site: FAM in GIO git .

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