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glib2-2.86.5

general-purpose utility library

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Description

General-purpose library in its second version from the GTK+ team, includes support routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation, and many other things.

Package information

Ports path
devel/glib2
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel, lang/python, x11/gnome
Available flavors
bootstrap
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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OpenBSD README
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| Running glib2 on OpenBSD
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File and directory monitor
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GLib (GFileMonitor) provides realtime kqueue(2) notifications and
monitoring up to the open file descriptors limit.
If gio-kqueue needs to handle large directories, the kern.maxfiles
sysctl(8) should be increased by adding an entry in sysctl.conf(5) and
the user's login(1) class modified accordingly by bumping the "cur" and
"max" openfiles limit in login.conf(5).
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