### Method

# Gio Resource ref

since: 2.32

#### Declaration

    GResource*
    g_resource_ref (
      GResource* resource
    )

#### Description

Atomically increments the reference count of `resource` by one. This function is MT-safe and may be called from any thread.

Available since: 2.32

#### Return value

Type: `GResource`

The passed in `GResource`.

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