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<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>
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<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>

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<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
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>
for descriptions of the following attributes:
</para>
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<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>
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<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>
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