GIO Reference Manual: GIO Reference Manual

for GIO 2.58.3 The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at https://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/.

GFile — File and Directory Handling
GFileAttribute — Key-Value Paired File Attributes
GFileInfo — File Information and Attributes
GFileEnumerator — Enumerated Files Routines
GIOError — Error helper functions
GMountOperation — Object used for authentication and user interaction

File System Monitoring

GFileMonitor — File Monitor

File-related Utilities

GFilenameCompleter — Filename Completer

Asynchronous I/O

GCancellable — Thread-safe Operation Cancellation Stack
GAsyncResult — Asynchronous Function Results
GTask — Cancellable synchronous or asynchronous task and result
GIOScheduler — I/O Scheduler
GSimpleAsyncResult — Simple asynchronous results implementation

Data conversion

GConverter — Data conversion interface
GCharsetConverter — Convert between charsets
GZlibCompressor — Zlib compressor
GZlibDecompressor — Zlib decompressor

Streaming I/O

GSeekable — Stream seeking interface
GInputStream — Base class for implementing streaming input
GOutputStream — Base class for implementing streaming output
GIOStream — Base class for implementing read/write streams
GSimpleIOStream — A wrapper around an input and an output stream.
GFileInputStream — File input streaming operations
GFileOutputStream — File output streaming operations
GFileIOStream — File read and write streaming operations
GFileDescriptorBased — Interface for file descriptor based IO
GFilterInputStream — Filter Input Stream
GFilterOutputStream — Filter Output Stream
GMemoryInputStream — Streaming input operations on memory chunks
GMemoryOutputStream — Streaming output operations on memory chunks
GBufferedInputStream — Buffered Input Stream
GBufferedOutputStream — Buffered Output Stream
GDataInputStream — Data Input Stream
GDataOutputStream — Data Output Stream
GUnixInputStream — Streaming input operations for UNIX file descriptors
GUnixOutputStream — Streaming output operations for UNIX file descriptors
GWin32InputStream — Streaming input operations for Windows file handles
GWin32OutputStream — Streaming output operations for Windows file handles
GConverterInputstream — Converter Input Stream
GConverterOutputstream — Converter Output Stream
GPollableInputStream — Interface for pollable input streams
GPollableOutputStream — Interface for pollable output streams
gpollableutils — Utilities for pollable streams

File types and applications

GContentType — Platform-specific content typing
GAppInfo — Application information and launch contexts
GAppInfoMonitor — Monitor application information for changes
GDesktopAppInfo — Application information from desktop files

Volumes and Drives

GVolumeMonitor — Volume Monitor
GVolume — Volume management
GMount — Mount management
GDrive — Drive management
Unix Mounts — UNIX mounts

Icons

GIcon — Interface for icons
GFileIcon — Icons pointing to an image file
GBytesIcon — An icon stored in memory as a GBytes
GLoadableIcon — Loadable Icons
GThemedIcon — Icon theming support
GEmblemedIcon — Icon with emblems
GEmblem — An object for emblems

Failable Initialization

GInitable — Failable object initialization interface
GAsyncInitable — Asynchronously failable object initialization interface

Subprocesses

GSubprocess — Child processes
GSubprocess Launcher — Environment options for launching a child process

Low-level network support

GSocket — Low-level socket object
GDatagramBased — Low-level datagram communications interface
GInetAddress — An IPv4/IPv6 address