GLib

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Classes:

• AppInfoMonitor - AppInfoMonitor is a very simple object used for monitoring the app info database for changes (ie: newly installed or removed applications).
• AppLaunchContext - Integrating the launch with the launching application.
• Application - A Application is the foundation of an application.
• ApplicationCommandLine - ApplicationCommandLine represents a command-line invocation of an application.
• BufferedInputStream - Buffered input stream implements FilterInputStream and provides for buffered reads.
• BufferedOutputStream - Buffered output stream implements FilterOutputStream and provides for buffered writes.
• BytesIcon - BytesIcon specifies an image held in memory in a common format (usually png) to be used as icon.
• Cancellable - GCancellable is a thread-safe operation cancellation stack used throughout GIO to allow for cancellation of synchronous and asynchronous operations.
• CancellableSource
• CharsetConverter - CharsetConverter is an implementation of Converter based on GIConv.
• ConverterInputStream - Converter input stream implements InputStream and allows conversion of data of various types during reading.
• ConverterOutputStream - Converter output stream implements OutputStream and allows conversion of data of various types during reading.
• Credentials - The Credentials type is a reference-counted wrapper for native credentials.
• DBusActionGroup - DBusActionGroup is an implementation of the ActionGroup interface that can be used as a proxy for an action group that is exported over D-Bus with export_action_group.
• DBusAnnotationInfo - Information about an annotation.
• DBusArgInfo - Information about an argument for a method or a signal.
• DBusAuthObserver - The DBusAuthObserver type provides a mechanism for participating in how a DBusServer (or a DBusConnection) authenticates remote peers.
• DBusConnection - The DBusConnection type is used for D-Bus connections to remote peers such as a message buses.
• DBusInterfaceInfo - Information about a D-Bus interface.
• DBusInterfaceSkeleton - Abstract base class for D-Bus interfaces on the service side.
• DBusMenuModel - DBusMenuModel is an implementation of MenuModel that can be used as a proxy for a menu model that is exported over D-Bus with export_menu_model.
• DBusMessage - A type for representing D-Bus messages that can be sent or received on a DBusConnection.
• DBusMethodInfo - Information about a method on an D-Bus interface.
• DBusMethodInvocation - Instances of the DBusMethodInvocation class are used when handling D-Bus method calls.
• DBusNodeInfo - Information about nodes in a remote object hierarchy.
• DBusObjectManagerClient - DBusObjectManagerClient is used to create, monitor and delete object proxies for remote objects exported by a DBusObjectManagerServer (or any code implementing the org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager interface).
• DBusObjectManagerServer - DBusObjectManagerServer is used to export DBusObject instances using the standardized org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager interface.
• DBusObjectProxy - A DBusObjectProxy is an object used to represent a remote object with one or more D-Bus interfaces.
• DBusObjectSkeleton - A DBusObjectSkeleton instance is essentially a group of D-Bus interfaces.
• DBusPropertyInfo - Information about a D-Bus property on a D-Bus interface.
• DBusProxy - DBusProxy is a base class used for proxies to access a D-Bus interface on a remote object.
• DBusServer - DBusServer is a helper for listening to and accepting D-Bus connections.
• DBusSignalInfo - Information about a signal on a D-Bus interface.
• DataInputStream - Data input stream implements InputStream and includes functions for reading structured data directly from a binary input stream.
• DataOutputStream - Data output stream implements OutputStream and includes functions for writing data directly to an output stream.
• DatagramBasedSource
• DebugControllerDBus - DebugControllerDBus is an implementation of DebugController which exposes debug settings as a D-Bus object.
• Emblem - Emblem is an implementation of Icon that supports having an emblem, which is an icon with additional properties.
• EmblemedIcon - EmblemedIcon is an implementation of Icon that supports adding an emblem to an icon.
• FileAttributeInfoList - Acts as a lightweight registry for possible valid file attributes.
• FileAttributeMatcher - Determines if a string matches a file attribute.
• FileEnumerator - FileEnumerator allows you to operate on a set of Files, returning a FileInfo structure for each file enumerated (e.
• FileIOStream - GFileIOStream provides io streams that both read and write to the same file handle.
• FileIcon - FileIcon specifies an icon by pointing to an image file to be used as icon.
• FileInfo - Functionality for manipulating basic metadata for files.
• FileInputStream - GFileInputStream provides input streams that take their content from a file.
• FileMonitor - Monitors a file or directory for changes.
• FileOutputStream - GFileOutputStream provides output streams that write their content to a file.
• FilenameCompleter - Completes partial file and directory names given a partial string by looking in the file system for clues.
• FilterInputStream - Base class for input stream implementations that perform some kind of filtering operation on a base stream.
• FilterOutputStream - Base class for output stream implementations that perform some kind of filtering operation on a base stream.
• IOExtension - IOExtension is an opaque data structure and can only be accessed using the following functions.
• IOExtensionPoint - IOExtensionPoint is an opaque data structure and can only be accessed using the following functions.
• IOModule - Provides an interface and default functions for loading and unloading modules.
• IOModuleScope - Represents a scope for loading IO modules.
• IOSchedulerJob - Opaque class for defining and scheduling IO jobs.
• IOStream - GIOStream represents an object that has both read and write streams.
• IOStreamAdapter
• InetAddress - InetAddress represents an IPv4 or IPv6 internet address.
• InetAddressMask - InetAddressMask represents a range of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses described by a base address and a length indicating how many bits of the base address are relevant for matching purposes.
• InetSocketAddress - An IPv4 or IPv6 socket address; that is, the combination of a InetAddress and a port number.
• InputStream - InputStream has functions to read from a stream (read), to close a stream (close) and to skip some content ( skip).
• ListStore - ListStore is a simple implementation of ListModel that stores all items in memory.
• MemoryInputStream - MemoryInputStream is a class for using arbitrary memory chunks as input for GIO streaming input operations.
• MemoryOutputStream - MemoryOutputStream is a class for using arbitrary memory chunks as output for GIO streaming output operations.
• Menu - Menu is a simple implementation of MenuModel.
• MenuAttributeIter - MenuAttributeIter is an opaque structure type.
• MenuItem - MenuItem is an opaque structure type.
• MenuLinkIter - MenuLinkIter is an opaque structure type.
• MenuModel - MenuModel represents the contents of a menu -- an ordered list of menu items.
• MountOperation - MountOperation provides a mechanism for interacting with the user.
• NativeSocketAddress - A socket address of some unknown native type.
• NativeVolumeMonitor
• NetworkAddress - NetworkAddress provides an easy way to resolve a hostname and then attempt to connect to that host, handling the possibility of multiple IP addresses and multiple address families.
• NetworkService - Like NetworkAddress does with hostnames, NetworkService provides an easy way to resolve a SRV record, and then attempt to connect to one of the hosts that implements that service, handling service priority/weighting, multiple IP addresses, and multiple address families.
• Notification - Notification is a mechanism for creating a notification to be shown to the user -- typically as a pop-up notification presented by the desktop environment shell.
• OutputStream - OutputStream has functions to write to a stream (write), to close a stream (close) and to flush pending writes ( flush).
• Permission - A Permission represents the status of the caller's permission to perform a certain action.
• PollableSource
• PropertyAction - A PropertyAction is a way to get a Action with a state value reflecting and controlling the value of a Object property.
• ProxyAddress - Support for proxied InetSocketAddress.
• ProxyAddressEnumerator - ProxyAddressEnumerator is a wrapper around SocketAddressEnumerator which takes the SocketAddress instances returned by the SocketAddressEnumerator and wraps them in ProxyAddress instances, using the given proxy_resolver.
• Resolver - Resolver provides cancellable synchronous and asynchronous DNS resolution, for hostnames ( lookup_by_address, lookup_by_name and their async variants) and SRV (service) records (lookup_service).
• Resource - Applications and libraries often contain binary or textual data that is really part of the application, rather than user data.
• Settings - The Settings class provides a convenient API for storing and retrieving application settings.
• SettingsBackend - The SettingsBackend interface defines a generic interface for non-strictly-typed data that is stored in a hierarchy.
• SettingsSchema - The SettingsSchemaSource and SettingsSchema APIs provide a mechanism for advanced control over the loading of schemas and a mechanism for introspecting their content.
• SettingsSchemaKey - SettingsSchemaKey is an opaque data structure and can only be accessed using the following functions.
• SettingsSchemaSource - This is an opaque structure type.
• SimpleAction - A SimpleAction is the obvious simple implementation of the Action interface.
• SimpleActionGroup - SimpleActionGroup is a hash table filled with Action objects, implementing the ActionGroup and ActionMap interfaces.
• SimpleAsyncResult - As of GLib 2.46, SimpleAsyncResult is deprecated in favor of Task, which provides a simpler API.
• SimpleIOStream - GSimpleIOStream creates a IOStream from an arbitrary InputStream and OutputStream.
• SimplePermission - SimplePermission is a trivial implementation of Permission that represents a permission that is either always or never allowed.
• SimpleProxyResolver - SimpleProxyResolver is a simple ProxyResolver implementation that handles a single default proxy, multiple URI-scheme-specific proxies, and a list of hosts that proxies should not be used for.
• Socket - A Socket is a low-level networking primitive.
• SocketAddress - SocketAddress is the equivalent of struct sockaddr in the BSD sockets API.
• SocketAddressEnumerator - SocketAddressEnumerator is an enumerator type for SocketAddress instances.
• SocketClient - SocketClient is a lightweight high-level utility class for connecting to a network host using a connection oriented socket type.
• SocketConnection - SocketConnection is a IOStream for a connected socket.
• SocketControlMessage - A SocketControlMessage is a special-purpose utility message that can be sent to or received from a Socket.
• SocketListener - A SocketListener is an object that keeps track of a set of server sockets and helps you accept sockets from any of the socket, either sync or async.
• SocketService - A SocketService is an object that represents a service that is provided to the network or over local sockets.
• SocketSource
• SrvTarget - SRV (service) records are used by some network protocols to provide service-specific aliasing and load-balancing.
• Subprocess - Subprocess allows the creation of and interaction with child processes.
• SubprocessLauncher - This class contains a set of options for launching child processes, such as where its standard input and output will be directed, the argument list, the environment, and more.
• Task - A Task represents and manages a cancellable "task".
• TcpConnection - This is the subclass of SocketConnection that is created for TCP/IP sockets.
• TcpWrapperConnection - A TcpWrapperConnection can be used to wrap a IOStream that is based on a Socket, but which is not actually a SocketConnection.
• TestDBus - A helper class for testing code which uses D-Bus without touching the user's session bus.
• ThemedIcon - ThemedIcon is an implementation of Icon that supports icon themes.
• ThreadedSocketService - A ThreadedSocketService is a simple subclass of SocketService that handles incoming connections by creating a worker thread and dispatching the connection to it by emitting the run signal in the new thread.
• TlsCertificate - A certificate used for TLS authentication and encryption.
• TlsConnection - TlsConnection is the base TLS connection class type, which wraps a IOStream and provides TLS encryption on top of it.
• TlsDatabase - TlsDatabase is used to look up certificates and other information from a certificate or key store.
• TlsInteraction - TlsInteraction provides a mechanism for the TLS connection and database code to interact with the user.
• TlsPassword - Holds a password used in TLS.
• UnixFDList - A UnixFDList contains a list of file descriptors.
• Vfs - Entry point for using GIO functionality.
• VolumeMonitor - VolumeMonitor is for listing the user interesting devices and volumes on the computer.
• ZlibCompressor - ZlibCompressor is an implementation of Converter that compresses data using zlib.
• ZlibDecompressor - ZlibDecompressor is an implementation of Converter that decompresses data compressed with zlib.

Structs:

• ActionEntry - This struct defines a single action.
• DBusErrorEntry - Struct used in register_error_domain.
• DBusInterfaceVTable - Virtual table for handling properties and method calls for a D-Bus interface.
• DBusSubtreeVTable - Virtual table for handling subtrees registered with register_subtree.
• FileAttributeInfo - Information about a specific attribute.
• InputMessage - Structure used for scatter/gather data input when receiving multiple messages or packets in one go.
• InputVector - Structure used for scatter/gather data input.
• OutputMessage - Structure used for scatter/gather data output when sending multiple messages or packets in one go.
• OutputVector - Structure used for scatter/gather data output.
• StaticResource - StaticResource is an opaque data structure and can only be accessed using the following functions.

Enums:

• AppInfoCreateFlags - Flags used when creating a AppInfo.
• ApplicationFlags - Flags used to define the behaviour of a Application.
• AskPasswordFlags - AskPasswordFlags are used to request specific information from the user, or to notify the user of their choices in an authentication situation.
• BusNameOwnerFlags - Flags used in g_bus_own_name.
• BusNameWatcherFlags - Flags used in g_bus_watch_name.
• BusType - An enumeration for well-known message buses.
• ConverterFlags - Flags used when calling a convert.
• ConverterResult - Results returned from convert.
• CredentialsType - Enumeration describing different kinds of native credential types.
• DBusCallFlags - Flags used in call and similar APIs.
• DBusCapabilityFlags - Capabilities negotiated with the remote peer.
• DBusConnectionFlags - Flags used when creating a new DBusConnection.
• DBusInterfaceSkeletonFlags - Flags describing the behavior of a DBusInterfaceSkeleton instance.
• DBusMessageByteOrder - Enumeration used to describe the byte order of a D-Bus message.
• DBusMessageFlags - Message flags used in DBusMessage.
• DBusMessageHeaderField - Header fields used in DBusMessage.
• DBusMessageType - Message types used in DBusMessage.
• DBusObjectManagerClientFlags - Flags used when constructing a DBusObjectManagerClient.
• DBusPropertyInfoFlags - Flags describing the access control of a D-Bus property.
• DBusProxyFlags - Flags used when constructing an instance of a DBusProxy derived class.
• DBusSendMessageFlags - Flags used when sending DBusMessages on a DBusConnection .
• DBusServerFlags - Flags used when creating a DBusServer.
• DBusSignalFlags - Flags used when subscribing to signals via signal_subscribe.
• DBusSubtreeFlags - Flags passed to register_subtree.
• DataStreamByteOrder - DataStreamByteOrder is used to ensure proper endianness of streaming data sources across various machine architectures.
• DataStreamNewlineType - DataStreamNewlineType is used when checking for or setting the line endings for a given file.
• DriveStartFlags - Flags used when starting a drive.
• DriveStartStopType - Enumeration describing how a drive can be started/stopped.
• EmblemOrigin - GEmblemOrigin is used to add information about the origin of the emblem to Emblem.
• FileAttributeInfoFlags - Flags specifying the behaviour of an attribute.
• FileAttributeStatus - Used by set_attributes_from_info when setting file attributes.
• FileAttributeType - The data types for file attributes.
• FileCopyFlags - Flags used when copying or moving files.
• FileCreateFlags - Flags used when an operation may create a file.
• FileMeasureFlags - Flags that can be used with measure_disk_usage.
• FileMonitorEvent - Specifies what type of event a monitor event is.
• FileMonitorFlags - Flags used to set what a FileMonitor will watch for.
• FileQueryInfoFlags - Flags used when querying a FileInfo.
• FileType - Indicates the file's on-disk type.
• FilesystemPreviewType - Indicates a hint from the file system whether files should be previewed in a file manager.
• IOModuleScopeFlags - Flags for use with IOModuleScope.
• IOStreamSpliceFlags - GIOStreamSpliceFlags determine how streams should be spliced.
• MemoryMonitorWarningLevel - Memory availability warning levels.
• MountMountFlags - Flags used when mounting a mount.
• MountOperationResult - MountOperationResult is returned as a result when a request for information is send by the mounting operation.
• MountUnmountFlags - Flags used when an unmounting a mount.
• NetworkConnectivity - The host's network connectivity state, as reported by NetworkMonitor.
• NotificationPriority - Priority levels for Notifications.
• OutputStreamSpliceFlags - GOutputStreamSpliceFlags determine how streams should be spliced.
• PasswordSave - PasswordSave is used to indicate the lifespan of a saved password.
• PollableReturn - Return value for various IO operations that signal errors via the return value and not necessarily via a Error.
• ResolverNameLookupFlags - Flags to modify lookup behavior.
• ResolverRecordType - The type of record that lookup_records or lookup_records_async should retrieve.
• ResourceFlags - GResourceFlags give information about a particular file inside a resource bundle.
• ResourceLookupFlags - GResourceLookupFlags determine how resource path lookups are handled.
• SettingsBindFlags - Flags used when creating a binding.
• SocketClientEvent - Describes an event occurring on a SocketClient.
• SocketFamily - The protocol family of a SocketAddress.
• SocketListenerEvent - Describes an event occurring on a SocketListener.
• SocketMsgFlags - Flags used in receive_message and send_message.
• SocketProtocol - A protocol identifier is specified when creating a Socket, which is a family/type specific identifier, where 0 means the default protocol for the particular family/type.
• SocketType - Flags used when creating a Socket.
• SubprocessFlags - Flags to define the behaviour of a Subprocess.
• TestDBusFlags - Flags to define future TestDBus behaviour.
• TlsAuthenticationMode - The client authentication mode for a TlsServerConnection.
• TlsCertificateFlags - A set of flags describing TLS certification validation.
• TlsCertificateRequestFlags - Flags for request_certificate, request_certificate_async, and invoke_request_certificate.
• TlsChannelBindingType - The type of TLS channel binding data to retrieve from TlsConnection or DtlsConnection, as documented by RFC 5929 or RFC 9266.
• TlsDatabaseLookupFlags - Flags for lookup_certificate_for_handle, lookup_certificate_issuer, and lookup_certificates_issued_by.
• TlsDatabaseVerifyFlags - Flags for verify_chain.
• TlsInteractionResult - TlsInteractionResult is returned by various functions in TlsInteraction when finishing an interaction request.
• TlsPasswordFlags - Various flags for the password.
• TlsProtocolVersion - The TLS or DTLS protocol version used by a TlsConnection or DtlsConnection.
• TlsRehandshakeMode - When to allow rehandshaking.
• UnixSocketAddressType - The type of name used by a GUnixSocketAddresss.
• ZlibCompressorFormat - Used to select the type of data format to use for ZlibDecompressor and ZlibCompressor.

Constants:

• public const bool DBUS_METHOD_INVOCATION_HANDLED
  The value returned by handlers of the signals generated by the `gdbus-codegen` tool to indicate that a method call has been handled by an implementation.
• public const bool DBUS_METHOD_INVOCATION_UNHANDLED
  The value returned by handlers of the signals generated by the `gdbus-codegen` tool to indicate that a method call has not been handled by an implementation.
• public const string DRIVE_IDENTIFIER_KIND_UNIX_DEVICE
  The string used to obtain a Unix device path with get_identifier.

Delegates:

• public delegate void AsyncReadyCallback (Object? source_object, AsyncResult res)
• public delegate void BusAcquiredCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name)
  Invoked when a connection to a message bus has been obtained.
• public delegate void BusNameAcquiredCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name)
  Invoked when the name is acquired.
• public delegate void BusNameAppearedCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name, string name_owner)
  Invoked when the name being watched is known to have to have an owner.
• public delegate void BusNameLostCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name)
  Invoked when the name is lost or connection has been closed.
• public delegate void BusNameVanishedCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name)
  Invoked when the name being watched is known not to have to have an owner.
• public delegate bool CancellableSourceFunc (Cancellable? cancellable = null)
  This is the function type of the callback used for the SocketSource returned by CancellableSource.
• public delegate Variant DBusInterfaceGetPropertyFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string interface_name, string property_name) throws Error
  The type of the get_property function in DBusInterfaceVTable.
• public delegate void DBusInterfaceMethodCallFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string interface_name, string method_name, Variant parameters, owned DBusMethodInvocation invocation)
  The type of the method_call function in DBusInterfaceVTable.
• public delegate bool DBusInterfaceSetPropertyFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string interface_name, string property_name, Variant value) throws Error
  The type of the set_property function in DBusInterfaceVTable.
• public delegate DBusMessage? DBusMessageFilterFunction (DBusConnection connection, owned DBusMessage message, bool incoming)
  Signature for function used in add_filter.
• public delegate Type DBusProxyTypeFunc (DBusObjectManagerClient manager, string object_path, string? interface_name)
  Function signature for a function used to determine the Type to use for an interface proxy (if interface_name is not null ) or object proxy (if interface_name is null).
• public delegate void DBusSignalCallback (DBusConnection connection, string? sender_name, string object_path, string interface_name, string signal_name, Variant parameters)
  Signature for callback function used in signal_subscribe.
• public delegate unowned DBusInterfaceVTable? DBusSubtreeDispatchFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string interface_name, string node, void* out_user_data)
  The type of the dispatch function in DBusSubtreeVTable.
• public delegate string[] DBusSubtreeEnumerateFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path)
  The type of the enumerate function in DBusSubtreeVTable.
• public delegate DBusInterfaceInfo[]? DBusSubtreeIntrospectFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string node)
  The type of the introspect function in DBusSubtreeVTable.
• public delegate bool DatagramBasedSourceFunc (DatagramBased datagram_based, IOCondition condition)
  This is the function type of the callback used for the SocketSource returned by create_source.
• public delegate void FileMeasureProgressCallback (bool reporting, uint64 current_size, uint64 num_dirs, uint64 num_files)
  This callback type is used by measure_disk_usage to make periodic progress reports when measuring the amount of disk spaced used by a directory.
• public delegate void FileProgressCallback (int64 current_num_bytes, int64 total_num_bytes)
  When doing file operations that may take a while, such as moving a file or copying a file, a progress callback is used to pass how far along that operation is to the application.
• public delegate bool FileReadMoreCallback (string file_contents, int64 file_size)
  When loading the partial contents of a file with load_partial_contents_async, it may become necessary to determine if any more data from the file should be loaded.
• public delegate bool IOSchedulerJobFunc (IOSchedulerJob job, Cancellable? cancellable = null)
  I/O Job function.
• public delegate bool PollableSourceFunc (Object pollable_stream)
  This is the function type of the callback used for the SocketSource returned by create_source and create_source.
• public delegate void* ReallocFunc (void* data, size_t size)
  Changes the size of the memory block pointed to by data to size bytes.
• public delegate bool SettingsBindGetMapping (Value value, Variant variant)
• public delegate bool SettingsBindGetMappingShared (Value value, Variant variant, void* user_data)
  The type for the function that is used to convert from Settings to an object property.
• public delegate Variant SettingsBindSetMapping (Value value, VariantType expected_type)
• public delegate Variant SettingsBindSetMappingShared (Value value, VariantType expected_type, void* user_data)
  The type for the function that is used to convert an object property value to a Variant for storing it in Settings.
• public delegate bool SettingsGetMapping (Variant value, out void* result)
  The type of the function that is used to convert from a value stored in a Settings to a value that is useful to the application.
• public delegate void SimpleActionActivateCallback (SimpleAction action, Variant? parameter)
• public delegate void SimpleActionChangeStateCallback (SimpleAction action, Variant value)
• public delegate void SimpleAsyncThreadFunc (SimpleAsyncResult res, Object object, Cancellable? cancellable = null)
  Simple thread function that runs an asynchronous operation and checks for cancellation.
• public delegate bool SocketSourceFunc (Socket socket, IOCondition condition)
  This is the function type of the callback used for the SocketSource returned by create_source.
• public delegate void TaskReadyCallback (Object? source_object, Task task)
  Type definition for a function that will be called back when an asynchronous operation within GIO has been completed.
• public delegate bool TaskSourceFunc (Task task)
• public delegate void TaskThreadFunc (Task task, Object source_object, void* task_data, Cancellable? cancellable = null)
  The prototype for a task function to be run in a thread via run_in_thread or run_in_thread_sync.
• public delegate File VfsFileLookupFunc (Vfs vfs, string identifier)
  This function type is used by register_uri_scheme to make it possible for a client to associate an URI scheme to a different File implementation.

Methods:

• public bool action_name_is_valid (string action_name)
• public bool action_parse_detailed_name (string detailed_name, out string action_name, out Variant target_value) throws Error
• public string action_print_detailed_name (string action_name, Variant? target_value)
• public DtlsClientConnection dtls_client_connection_new (DatagramBased base_socket, SocketConnectable? server_identity) throws Error
• public DtlsServerConnection dtls_server_connection_new (DatagramBased base_socket, TlsCertificate? certificate) throws Error
• public unowned IOExtension io_extension_point_implement (string extension_point_name, Type type, string extension_name, int priority)
  Registers type as extension for the extension point with name extension_point_name.
• public unowned IOExtensionPoint io_extension_point_lookup (string name)
  Looks up an existing extension point.
• public unowned IOExtensionPoint io_extension_point_register (string name)
  Registers an extension point.
• public MemoryMonitor memory_monitor_dup_default ()
• public void networking_init ()
  Initializes the platform networking libraries (eg, on Windows, this calls WSAStartup).
• public ssize_t pollable_stream_read (InputStream stream, uint8[] buffer, bool blocking, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
  Tries to read from stream, as with read (if blocking is true ) or read_nonblocking (if blocking is false).
• public ssize_t pollable_stream_write (OutputStream stream, uint8[] buffer, bool blocking, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
  Tries to write to stream, as with write (if blocking is true ) or write_nonblocking (if blocking is false).
• public bool pollable_stream_write_all (OutputStream stream, uint8[] buffer, bool blocking, out size_t bytes_written, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
  Tries to write buffer.length bytes to stream , as with write_all, but using pollable_stream_write rather than write.
• public PowerProfileMonitor power_profile_monitor_dup_default ()
• public Quark resolver_error_quark ()
• public Quark resource_error_quark ()
• public Resource resource_load (string filename) throws Error
  Loads a binary resource bundle and creates a Resource representation of it, allowing you to query it for data.
• public string[] resources_enumerate_children (string path, ResourceLookupFlags lookup_flags) throws Error
  Returns all the names of children at the specified path in the set of globally registered resources.
• public bool resources_get_info (string path, ResourceLookupFlags lookup_flags, out size_t size, out uint32 flags) throws Error
  Looks for a file at the specified path in the set of globally registered resources and if found returns information about it.
• public Bytes resources_lookup_data (string path, ResourceLookupFlags lookup_flags) throws Error
  Looks for a file at the specified path in the set of globally registered resources and returns a Bytes that lets you directly access the data in memory.
• public InputStream resources_open_stream (string path, ResourceLookupFlags lookup_flags) throws Error
  Looks for a file at the specified path in the set of globally registered resources and returns a InputStream that lets you read the data.
• public void resources_register (Resource resource)
  Registers the resource with the process-global set of resources.
• public void resources_unregister (Resource resource)
  Unregisters the resource from the process-global set of resources.
• public unowned SettingsSchemaSource? settings_schema_source_get_default ()
  Gets the default system schema source.

Fields:

• public ReallocFunc g_realloc