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<refentry id="libglib-20-3">

<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">14 May 2008</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>general purpose utility library</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>libgmodule-2.0</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>support for dynamic plug-ins</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>libgthread-2.0</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>support for thread abstraction</primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="libglib-20-3-name">

<refname>&cmd;</refname>

<refname>libgmodule-2.0</refname>

<refname>libgthread-2.0</refname>

<refpurpose>

general purpose utility library, support for dynamic plug-ins, and thread

abstraction.

</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>

GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data

types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, a main loop abstraction, and

so on.

</para>

<para>

<filename>libgmodule-2.0</filename> provides a portable method of dynamically

loading plug-ins or shared object modules.

</para>

<para>

<filename>libgthread-2.0</filename> provides a thread abstraction which

includes threads, different mutex methods, conditions, and thread private

data. It also provides different useful patterns such as thread pools.

</para>

<para>To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version

of the package.

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>

The following files are used by this application:

</para>

<variablelist termlength="wide">

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so</filename></term>

<listitem><para>

GNOME general purpose shared library

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so</filename> </term>

<listitem><para>

GLib dynamic plug-in shared library

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so</filename> </term>

<listitem><para>

GLib thread abstraction shared library

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib</filename> </term><listitem>

<para>

Location of developer documentation

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>

See

<olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5">

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:

</para>

<informaltable frame="all">

<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry>

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><para>Availability</para></entry>

<entry><para>library/glib2</para></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry>

<entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Committed</para></entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glib-genmarshal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glib-gettextize</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glib-mkenums</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgobject-2.0</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgio-2.0</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libglibmm-2.4</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-std-options</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>

Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008.

</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>