GIO (software)

GIO (Gnome Input/Output) is a library, designed to present programmers with a modern and usable interface 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 shortcomings of GnomeVFS" and be "so good that developers prefer it over raw POSIX calls.

GIO is free and open-source software released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Beyond these, GIO provides facilities for file monitoring, asynchronous I/O and filename completion.

Implementations for various network file systems are provided by the GVfs package as loadable modules.

As the GNU C Library serves as a wrapper for Linux kernel system calls , so do the libraries bundled in GLib ( GObject , Glib , GModule , GThread and GIO ) serve as further wrappers for their specific tasks.
Simplified software architecture of GTK . Pango , GDK , ATK , GIO , Cairo and GLib .