Talk:GIO (software)

a "simple example" has blank lines to group statements, doesn't handle every remote possible case and is MUCH shorter! --88.153.145.39 (talk) 20:48, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

and doesn't use undocumented internal function calls like _g_free0 and _g_object_unref0. 203.173.221.170 (talk) 21:42, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

It seems like this whole article was written by someone trying to dissuade users from GIO - comments with bad references and a code example that looks like it was originally written in Vala, put through the compiler and its results posted as example code. _g_free0 is a macro defined at the top, designed to return a NULL value... not exactly sure why it's there since it's just going to be removed by GCC as a dead store. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.177.55.105 (talk) 23:51, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Library is more general-purpose
I was surprised when I read in the Gtk.Action documentation that its functionality had been moved to GIO, because I thought it was a VFS library. I checked this article and saw my belief affirmed and was confused. I think the first sentence should mention that GIO now contains a lot more than just VFS utilities. --88.74.10.247 (talk) 00:42, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Also a command
GIO is a command utility exposing GVfs operations such and MOUNT and file operations.

+ gio --help Usage: gio COMMAND [ARGS…]

Commands: help    Print help version Print version cat     Concatenate files to standard output copy    Copy one or more files info    Show information about locations list    List the contents of locations mime    Get or set the handler for a mimetype mkdir   Create directories monitor Monitor files and directories for changes mount   Mount or unmount the locations move    Move one or more files open    Open files with the default application rename  Rename a file remove  Delete one or more files save    Read from standard input and save set     Set a file attribute trash   Move files or directories to the trash tree    Lists the contents of locations in a tree

Use “gio help COMMAND” to get detailed help.

HiTechHiTouch (talk) 08:28, 1 February 2021 (UTC)