Understanding GIOChannel and Event Handling in GLib
The GIOChannel data type provides a convenient mechanism for working with file descriptors, pipes, and sockets. It offers a unified approach to handling IO events across different types of file descriptors.
Let's examine the structure definition first:
struct _GIOChannel
{
/*< private >*/
gint ref_count;
GIOFuncs *funcs;
gchar *e ...
Posted on Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:36:13 +0000 by cent