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     15 <refentry id="libglib-20-3">
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     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>
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     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>&note-tt;</title>
    103 <para>Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008.</para>
    104 </refsect1>
    105 </refentry>
    106