GIO is a library, designed to present programmers with a modern and usable inter

face to a virtual file system. It allows applications to access local and remote
files with a single consistent API, which was designed "to overcome the shortco
mings of GnomeVFS" and be "so good that developers prefer it over raw POSIX call
s."[2]
GIO serves as low-level system library for the GNOME Shell/GNOME/GTK+ software s
tack and is being developed by The GNOME Project. It is maintained as a separate
library, libgio-2.0, but it is bundled with GLib. GIO is free and open-source s
oftware subject to the requirements of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
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Features
The abstract file system model of GIO consists of a number of interfaces and
base classes for I/O and files.
There is a number of stream classes, similar to the input and output stream
hierarchies that can be found in frameworks like Java.
There are interfaces related to applications and the types of files they han
dle.
There is a framework for storing and retrieving application settings.
There is support for network programming, including name resolution, lowleve
l socket APIs and highlevel client and server helper classes.
There is support for connecting to D-Bus, sending and receiving messages, ow
ning and watching bus names, and making objects available on the bus.
Beyond these, GIO provides facilities for file monitoring, asynchronous I/O and
filename completion. In addition to the interfaces, GIO provides implementations
for the local case. Implementations for various network file systems are provid
ed by the GVFS package as loadable modules.
See also
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KIO

the equivalent KDE library

References
glib releases, gnome.org
"GIO Reference Manual".
External links
GIO Reference Manual
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