Function

Gioio_modules_load_all_in_directory

Declaration

GList*
g_io_modules_load_all_in_directory (
  const gchar* dirname
)

Description

Loads all the modules in the specified directory.

If don’t require all modules to be initialized (and thus registering all gtypes) then you can use g_io_modules_scan_all_in_directory() which allows delayed/lazy loading of modules.

Parameters

dirname

Type: const gchar*

Pathname for a directory containing modules to load.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.

Return value

Type: A list of GIOModule*

A list of GIOModules loaded from the directory, All the modules are loaded into memory, if you want to unload them (enabling on-demand loading) you must call g_type_module_unuse() on all the modules. Free the list with g_list_free().

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.