What non-GUI programs use glib?

Question

What non-GUI programs (daemons) use glib?

Severus

All that are written in C. Perhaps you meant "why"... – Laevo

@Álvaro err no, lots of stuff doesn't use glib (not talking about libc here, glib the library that GTK and stuff is built on top of) – Exotic

@spudd86: You are right, I was confused by the GNU C Library (glibc). – Laevo

Answer 1

On my Ubuntu system apt-cache rdepends libglib2.0-0 gives me, among many others:

• amanda-server (backup software)
• bitlbee (IRC <-> various IM proxy)
• blktool (tool to tune block device parameters; not a daemon AFAIU)
• collectd (system statistics collection and monitoring daemon)
• consolekit (framework for defining and tracking users, sessions and seats)
• devicekit-disks (abstraction for enumerating block devices)
• devicekit-power (abstraction for power management)
• (I got bored at this point)

This lists package rather than actual binary dependencies; it's possible (but I don't think likely) that some of these packages ship GUI applications that depend on glib.

Let's take, say, consolekit and verify:

dpkg -L consolekit tells me the daemon is /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon, and ldd /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon tells me it depends on libglib, libgthread, libgmodule, libgobject, libgio, but no GUI stuff. So here you are, a genuine daemon using glib.

Zolazoldi

Answer 2

I use glib quite a bit in non-GUI programming, especially for FUSE filesystems. Lots of routines to complement glibc, things like hash tables, a linked list implementation, a cross-platform threading library - lots of useful stuff for general-purpose programming. I think of it like C's version of Boost.

Guinna

Answer 3

Irssi, an IRC client with support for scripts.

Timmytimocracy

Answer 4

GStreamer is built upon GLib/GObject.

Mainmast

Answer 5

Most notable in my memory is libpurple aside from its GUI counterpart Pidgin

Domenicadomenico