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  46 <div><table class="navigation" id="top" width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr><th valign="middle"><p class="title">GIO Reference Manual</p></th></tr></table></div>
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  48       for GIO 2.24.0
  49
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  56 <div class="toc"><dl>
  57 <dt><span class="part"><a href="pt01.html">I. GIO Overview</a></span></dt>
  58 <dd><dl>
  59 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="ch01.html">Introduction</a></span></dt>
  60 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="ch02.html">Compiling GIO applications</a></span></dt>
  61 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="ch03.html">Running GIO applications</a></span></dt>
  62 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="extending-gio.html">Extending GIO</a></span></dt>
  63 </dl></dd>
  64 <dt><span class="part"><a href="pt02.html">II. API Reference</a></span></dt>
  65 <dd><dl>
  66 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="file_ops.html">File Operations</a></span></dt>
  67 <dd><dl>
  68 <dt>
  69 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFile.html">GFile</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — File and Directory Handling</span>
  70 </dt>
  71 <dt>
  72 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-GFileAttribute.html">GFileAttribute</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Key-Value Paired File Attributes</span>
  73 </dt>
  74 <dt>
  75 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFileInfo.html">GFileInfo</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — File Information and Attributes</span>
  76 </dt>
  77 <dt>
  78 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFileEnumerator.html">GFileEnumerator</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Enumerated Files Routines</span>
  79 </dt>
  80 <dt>
  81 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-GIOError.html">GIOError</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Error helper functions</span>
  82 </dt>
  83 <dt>
  84 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GMountOperation.html">GMountOperation</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Object used for authentication and user interaction</span>
  85 </dt>
  86 </dl></dd>
  87 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="file_mon.html">File System Monitoring</a></span></dt>
  88 <dd><dl><dt>
  89 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFileMonitor.html">GFileMonitor</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — File Monitor</span>
  90 </dt></dl></dd>
  91 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="async.html">Asynchronous I/O</a></span></dt>
  92 <dd><dl>
  93 <dt>
  94 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GCancellable.html">GCancellable</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Thread-safe Operation Cancellation Stack</span>
  95 </dt>
  96 <dt>
  97 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GAsyncResult.html">GAsyncResult</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Asynchronous Function Results</span>
  98 </dt>
  99 <dt>
 100 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-GIOScheduler.html">GIOScheduler</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — I/O Scheduler</span>
 101 </dt>
 102 <dt>
 103 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSimpleAsyncResult.html">GSimpleAsyncResult</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Simple asynchronous results implementation</span>
 104 </dt>
 105 </dl></dd>
 106 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="conversion.html">Data conversion</a></span></dt>
 107 <dd><dl>
 108 <dt>
 109 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GConverter.html">GConverter</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Data conversion interface</span>
 110 </dt>
 111 <dt>
 112 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GCharsetConverter.html">GCharsetConverter</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Convert between charsets</span>
 113 </dt>
 114 <dt>
 115 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GZlibCompressor.html">GZlibCompressor</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Zlib compressor</span>
 116 </dt>
 117 <dt>
 118 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GZlibDecompressor.html">GZlibDecompressor</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Zlib decompressor</span>
 119 </dt>
 120 </dl></dd>
 121 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="streaming.html">Streaming I/O</a></span></dt>
 122 <dd><dl>
 123 <dt>
 124 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSeekable.html">GSeekable</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Stream seeking interface</span>
 125 </dt>
 126 <dt>
 127 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GInputStream.html">GInputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Base class for implementing streaming input</span>
 128 </dt>
 129 <dt>
 130 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GOutputStream.html">GOutputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Base class for implementing streaming output</span>
 131 </dt>
 132 <dt>
 133 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GIOStream.html">GIOStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Base class for implementing read/write streams</span>
 134 </dt>
 135 <dt>
 136 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFileInputStream.html">GFileInputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — File input streaming operations</span>
 137 </dt>
 138 <dt>
 139 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFileOutputStream.html">GFileOutputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — File output streaming operations</span>
 140 </dt>
 141 <dt>
 142 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFileIOStream.html">GFileIOStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — File read and write streaming operations</span>
 143 </dt>
 144 <dt>
 145 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFileDescriptorBased.html">GFileDescriptorBased</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Interface for file descriptor based IO</span>
 146 </dt>
 147 <dt>
 148 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFilterInputStream.html">GFilterInputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Filter Input Stream</span>
 149 </dt>
 150 <dt>
 151 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFilterOutputStream.html">GFilterOutputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Filter Output Stream</span>
 152 </dt>
 153 <dt>
 154 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GMemoryInputStream.html">GMemoryInputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Streaming input operations on memory chunks</span>
 155 </dt>
 156 <dt>
 157 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GMemoryOutputStream.html">GMemoryOutputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Streaming output operations on memory chunks</span>
 158 </dt>
 159 <dt>
 160 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GBufferedInputStream.html">GBufferedInputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Buffered Input Stream</span>
 161 </dt>
 162 <dt>
 163 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GBufferedOutputStream.html">GBufferedOutputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Buffered Output Stream</span>
 164 </dt>
 165 <dt>
 166 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GDataInputStream.html">GDataInputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Data Input Stream</span>
 167 </dt>
 168 <dt>
 169 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GDataOutputStream.html">GDataOutputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Data Output Stream</span>
 170 </dt>
 171 <dt>
 172 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GUnixInputStream.html">GUnixInputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Streaming input operations for UNIX file descriptors</span>
 173 </dt>
 174 <dt>
 175 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GUnixOutputStream.html">GUnixOutputStream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Streaming output operations for Unix file descriptors</span>
 176 </dt>
 177 <dt>
 178 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-GConverterInputstream.html">GConverterInputstream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Converter Input Stream</span>
 179 </dt>
 180 <dt>
 181 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-GConverterOutputstream.html">GConverterOutputstream</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Converter Output Stream</span>
 182 </dt>
 183 </dl></dd>
 184 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="types.html">File types and applications</a></span></dt>
 185 <dd><dl>
 186 <dt>
 187 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-GContentType.html">GContentType</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Platform-specific content typing</span>
 188 </dt>
 189 <dt>
 190 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GAppInfo.html">GAppInfo</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Application information and launch contexts</span>
 191 </dt>
 192 <dt>
 193 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-Desktop-file-based-GAppInfo.html">Desktop file based GAppInfo</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Application information from desktop files</span>
 194 </dt>
 195 </dl></dd>
 196 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="volume_mon.html">Volumes and Drives</a></span></dt>
 197 <dd><dl>
 198 <dt>
 199 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GVolumeMonitor.html">GVolumeMonitor</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Volume Monitor</span>
 200 </dt>
 201 <dt>
 202 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GVolume.html">GVolume</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Volume management</span>
 203 </dt>
 204 <dt>
 205 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GMount.html">GMount</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Mount management</span>
 206 </dt>
 207 <dt>
 208 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GDrive.html">GDrive</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Drive management</span>
 209 </dt>
 210 <dt>
 211 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-Unix-Mounts.html">Unix Mounts</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Unix Mounts</span>
 212 </dt>
 213 </dl></dd>
 214 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="icons.html">Icons</a></span></dt>
 215 <dd><dl>
 216 <dt>
 217 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GIcon.html">GIcon</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Interface for icons</span>
 218 </dt>
 219 <dt>
 220 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFileIcon.html">GFileIcon</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Icons pointing to an image file</span>
 221 </dt>
 222 <dt>
 223 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GLoadableIcon.html">GLoadableIcon</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Loadable Icons</span>
 224 </dt>
 225 <dt>
 226 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GThemedIcon.html">GThemedIcon</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Icon theming support</span>
 227 </dt>
 228 <dt>
 229 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GEmblemedIcon.html">GEmblemedIcon</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Icon with emblems</span>
 230 </dt>
 231 <dt>
 232 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GEmblem.html">GEmblem</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — An object for emblems</span>
 233 </dt>
 234 </dl></dd>
 235 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="failable_initialization.html">Failable Initialization</a></span></dt>
 236 <dd><dl>
 237 <dt>
 238 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GInitable.html">GInitable</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Failable object initialization interface</span>
 239 </dt>
 240 <dt>
 241 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GAsyncInitable.html">GAsyncInitable</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Asynchronously failable object initialization interface</span>
 242 </dt>
 243 </dl></dd>
 244 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="networking.html">Lowlevel platform-independent network support</a></span></dt>
 245 <dd><dl>
 246 <dt>
 247 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSocket.html">GSocket</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Low-level socket object</span>
 248 </dt>
 249 <dt>
 250 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GInetAddress.html">GInetAddress</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — An IPv4/IPv6 address</span>
 251 </dt>
 252 <dt>
 253 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSocketAddress.html">GSocketAddress</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Abstract base class representing endpoints for
 254 socket communication</span>
 255 </dt>
 256 <dt>
 257 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GInetSocketAddress.html">GInetSocketAddress</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Internet GSocketAddress</span>
 258 </dt>
 259 <dt>
 260 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GUnixSocketAddress.html">GUnixSocketAddress</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — UNIX GSocketAddress</span>
 261 </dt>
 262 <dt>
 263 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSocketControlMessage.html">GSocketControlMessage</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — A GSocket control message</span>
 264 </dt>
 265 <dt>
 266 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GUnixFDList.html">GUnixFDList</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — An object containing a set of file descriptors</span>
 267 </dt>
 268 <dt>
 269 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GUnixFDMessage.html">GUnixFDMessage</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — A GSocketControlMessage containing a <a class="link" href="GUnixFDList.html" title="GUnixFDList"><span class="type">GUnixFDList</span></a></span>
 270 </dt>
 271 </dl></dd>
 272 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="resolver.html">DNS resolution</a></span></dt>
 273 <dd><dl>
 274 <dt>
 275 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GResolver.html">GResolver</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Asynchronous and cancellable DNS resolver</span>
 276 </dt>
 277 <dt>
 278 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSocketConnectable.html">GSocketConnectable</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Interface for potential socket endpoints</span>
 279 </dt>
 280 <dt>
 281 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GNetworkAddress.html">GNetworkAddress</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — A GSocketConnectable for resolving hostnames</span>
 282 </dt>
 283 <dt>
 284 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GNetworkService.html">GNetworkService</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — A GSocketConnectable for resolving SRV records</span>
 285 </dt>
 286 <dt>
 287 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-GSrvTarget.html">GSrvTarget</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — DNS SRV record target</span>
 288 </dt>
 289 </dl></dd>
 290 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="highlevel-socket.html">Highlevel network functionallity</a></span></dt>
 291 <dd><dl>
 292 <dt>
 293 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSocketClient.html">GSocketClient</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Helper for connecting to a network service</span>
 294 </dt>
 295 <dt>
 296 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSocketConnection.html">GSocketConnection</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — A socket connection</span>
 297 </dt>
 298 <dt>
 299 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSocketListener.html">GSocketListener</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Helper for accepting network client connections</span>
 300 </dt>
 301 <dt>
 302 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GSocketService.html">GSocketService</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Make it easy to implement a network service</span>
 303 </dt>
 304 <dt>
 305 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GThreadedSocketService.html">GThreadedSocketService</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — A threaded GSocketService</span>
 306 </dt>
 307 </dl></dd>
 308 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="utils.html">Utilities</a></span></dt>
 309 <dd><dl><dt>
 310 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GFilenameCompleter.html">GFilenameCompleter</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Filename Completer</span>
 311 </dt></dl></dd>
 312 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="extending.html">Extending GIO</a></span></dt>
 313 <dd><dl>
 314 <dt>
 315 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GVfs.html">GVfs</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Virtual File System</span>
 316 </dt>
 317 <dt>
 318 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="GIOModule.html">GIOModule</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Loadable GIO Modules</span>
 319 </dt>
 320 <dt>
 321 <span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gio-Extension-Points.html">Extension Points</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Extension Points</span>
 322 </dt>
 323 </dl></dd>
 324 </dl></dd>
 325 <dt><span class="part"><a href="migrating.html">III. Migrating to GIO</a></span></dt>
 326 <dd><dl>
 327 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="ch19.html">Migrating from POSIX to GIO</a></span></dt>
 328 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="ch20.html">Migrating from GnomeVFS to GIO</a></span></dt>
 329 <dd><dl>
 330 <dt><span class="section"><a href="ch20.html#id559976">Trash handling</a></span></dt>
 331 <dt><span class="section"><a href="ch20s02.html">Operations on multiple files</a></span></dt>
 332 <dt><span class="section"><a href="ch20s03.html">Mime monitoring</a></span></dt>
 333 </dl></dd>
 334 </dl></dd>
 335 <dt><span class="chapter"><a href="gio-hierarchy.html">Object Hierarchy</a></span></dt>
 336 <dt><span class="index"><a href="api-index-full.html">Index</a></span></dt>
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