GSK Reference Manual

Table of Contents

Core Library Support
  Lightweight Hookable Events - a blockable, optionally shutdown-able, trap-able structure inside a GObject.
  Library Initialization - Perform general initialization with limited argument parsing.
  Helpful Macros - Various macros to eliminate tedious typing, beyond those provided by glib.
  Base Input/Output Object - A base class with input and output triggers, but no actual read or write methods. Those are left for derived classes to support.
  Binary Input/Output Stream Base - A byte stream. This has methods to read and write data, and it inherits read/write notification from GskStream.
  gskstreamconnection - Connection between the input of one stream and the output of another.
  Main Loop (Generic Event Management) - Convenient way to be notified when certain types of event occur.
  Socket Address Lookup by Name - A way to lookup addresses from names. (Like a generic DNS.)
  Useful GTypes - some types useful to servers
  GskBuffer - a fast, flexible in-memory data buffer
  Old-Fashioned errno Handling - A few tricks which operate on the same type as errno, an int.
  Error Codes - An exhaustive composite list of error codes.
  Trivial Main Functions. - These are trivial interfaces to the main-loop.
  Glib Helper Routines - Miscellaneous helper routines that could conceivably be moved to glib someday.
  Datagram I/O - base class for datagram I/O classes
  Binary Packet - A binary data packet.
  Listening for Connections - Base class for server-type objects.
  Client Stream - Create a GskStream which is connecting to a remote address.
  Socket Addresses. - The location of a socket endpoint, in some domain.
  gsklog - convenient logging methods around the glib mechanism
  Debugging Hints - How to debug your program
  Runtime Toggled Debug Logging - methods to quickly turn logging on and off for portions of GSK.
  gskutils -
Object Hierarchy
Tutorials
  Writing a Generic Server - How to write a server
  Writing a Generic Client - How to write a client
  Writing an HTTP Server - How to write a webserver
  Writing a HTTP Client - How to write a web client
Standard Implementations
  GskPacketQueueFd - A PacketQueue based on a file descriptor.
  GskStreamFd - a file-descriptor based GskStream
  GskStreamExternal - streams which connect to another process.
  GskStreamListenerSocket - socket-based stream-listener.
  gskbufferstream - Simple Buffering Stream
Standard Objects: the URL class
  GskUrl - A Universal Resource Locator (or Identifier) object.
  GskUrlTransfer - Transfer data with a location by URL.
  GskUrlTransferHttp - An HTTP- or HTTPS-based transfer.
Standard Streams: the HTTP client and server
  GskHttpHeader - Base class for HTTP headers.
  GskHttpRequest - An HTTP header that is sent from client to server.
  GskHttpResponse - An HTTP header that is sent from server to client.
  GskHttpClient - The client end of an HTTP connection.
  GskHttpServer - The server end of an HTTP connection.
Standard Streams: standard compression algorithms
  GskZlibDeflator - a zlib compressor.
  GskZlibInflator - a zlib decompressor
  gskzlib -
Standard Streams: utility streams
  GskStreamQueue - a stream that concatenates inputs and outputs.
  memory-based streams - streams whose data is "memory", inside pointer-accessed data.
DNS library (client and server support)
  gskdns -
  gskdnsrrcache - A cache of Resource Record data.
  gskdnsclient - This is a DNS client.
  gskdnslocalresolver - a DNS resolver which uses just a local resource-record cache.
  gskdnsresolver - An interface that DNS resolvers provide.
  gskdnsserver - base class for a DNS server.
SSL interface
  GskStreamSsl -
MIME handling
  gskmimemultipartpiece -
  GskMimeMultipartDecoder - read Content-Type multipart/*.
RPC protocols
  gskxmlrpc - XMLRPC definitions
  GskXmlrpcStream - a stream of XMLRPC method calls and responses.
Main Loops
  GskMainLoopDevPoll - /dev/poll based event loop.
  GskMainLoopKqueue - a kqueue-based event loop.
  GskMainLoopPoll - a poll(2)-based main-loop.
  GskMainLoopPollBase - a base class for file-descriptor-only polling mechanisms.
  GskMainLoopSelect - a select(2)-based event loop.
Odds and Ends
  Base-64 - Base-64 Encoding and Decoding
  gskhash - hash computing objects
  gskmempool - pooling memory allocators.
  gsknetworkinterface - Obtain information about your local network interfaces.
  gskdate - Date parsing and printing code.
Questionable ideas
  gsktree - A robustly iterateable tree.
  gskfork - Functions to call to clean up after forking.

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