1 <!DOCTYPE REFENTRY PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems//DTD DocBook V3.0-Based SolBook Subset V2.0//EN" [ 2 <!--ArborText, Inc., 1988-1999, v.4002--> 3 <!--ARC : LSARC 2001/384 Gtk+ 2.0 / glib 2.0--> 4 <!--ARC : LSARC 2001/781 location of GTK/Glib--> 5 <!--ARC : PSARC 2001/804 GTK/Glib becomes Contracted External--> 6 <!ENTITY cmd "libglib-2.0"> 7 <!ENTITY % commonents SYSTEM "smancommon.ent"> 8 %commonents; 9 <!ENTITY % booktitles SYSTEM "booktitles.ent"> 10 %booktitles; 11 <!ENTITY suncopy "Copyright (c) 2003,2004,2006,2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved."> 12 ]> 13 <?Pub UDT _bookmark _target> 14 <?Pub Inc> 15 <refentry id="libglib-20-3"> 16 <!-- %Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI; --> 17 <refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum> 18 <refmiscinfo class="date">14 May 2008</refmiscinfo> 19 <refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo> 20 <refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo> 21 <refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo> 22 <refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo> 23 </refmeta> 24 <indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm> 25 <indexterm><primary>general purpose utility library</primary></indexterm> 26 <indexterm><primary>libgmodule-2.0</primary></indexterm> 27 <indexterm><primary>support for dynamic plug-ins</primary></indexterm> 28 <indexterm><primary>libgthread-2.0</primary></indexterm> 29 <indexterm><primary>support for thread abstraction</primary></indexterm> 30 <refnamediv id="libglib-20-3-name"> 31 <refname>&cmd;</refname> 32 <refname>libgmodule-2.0</refname> 33 <refname>libgthread-2.0</refname> 34 <refpurpose> 35 general purpose utility library, support for dynamic plug-ins, and thread 36 abstraction. 37 </refpurpose></refnamediv> 38 <refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title> 39 <para>GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful 40 data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, a main loop abstraction, 41 and so on.</para> 42 <para><filename>libgmodule-2.0</filename> provides a portable method of dynamically 43 loading plug-ins or shared object modules.</para> 44 <para><filename>libgthread-2.0</filename> provides a thread abstraction which 45 includes threads, different mutex methods, conditions, and thread private 46 data. It also provides different useful patterns such as thread pools.</para> 47 <para>To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version 48 of the package.</para> 49 </refsect1> 50 <refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title> 51 <para>The following files are used by this application:</para> 52 <variablelist termlength="wide"> 53 <varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so</filename> </term><listitem> 54 <para>GNOME general purpose shared library</para> 55 </listitem></varlistentry> 56 <varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so</filename> </term> 57 <listitem><para>GLib dynamic plug-in shared library</para> 58 </listitem></varlistentry> 59 <varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so</filename> </term> 60 <listitem><para>GLib thread abstraction shared library</para> 61 </listitem></varlistentry> 62 <varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib</filename> </term><listitem> 63 <para>Location of developer documentation</para> 64 </listitem></varlistentry> 65 </variablelist></refsect1> 66 <refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title> 67 <para>See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><citerefentry> 68 <refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink> 69 for descriptions of the following attributes:</para> 70 <informaltable frame="all"> 71 <tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*"> 72 <colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*"> 73 <thead> 74 <row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center" 75 valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row> 76 </thead> 77 <tbody> 78 <row><entry><para>Availability</para></entry><entry><para>SUNWgnome-base-libs 79 SUNWgnome-base-libs-64</para></entry></row> 80 <row><entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry><entry 81 colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Committed</para></entry></row> 82 </tbody> 83 </tgroup> 84 </informaltable> 85 </refsect1> 86 <refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title> 87 <!--Reference to another man page--> 88 <!--Reference to a Help manual--> 89 <!--Reference to a book.--> 90 <para> 91 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glib-genmarshal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 92 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glib-gettextize</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 93 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glib-mkenums</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 94 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgobject-2.0</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 95 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgio-2.0</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 96 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>libglibmm-2.4</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 97 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 98 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 99 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-std-options</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> 100 </para> 101 </refsect1> 102 <refsect1 id="libglib-20-3-note"><title>¬e-tt;</title> 103 <para>Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008.</para> 104 </refsect1> 105 </refentry> 106