README ====== *libslack* - A *UNIX/C* library of general utilities for programmers with Slack Slack(n.): The state in which you need nothing, because you already have it. -- J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, 1956 DESCRIPTION =========== *Libslack* is a library of general utilities designed to make *UNIX/C* programming a bit easier on the eye. It is a seemingly random collection of modules and functions that I find commonly useful. It's a small library with lots of functionality, accurately documented and thoroughly tested. Good library naming conventions are not rigorously observed on the principle that common operations should always be easy to write and code should always be easy to read. *Libslack* contains the following modules: agent - agent-oriented programming coproc - coprocess using pipes or pseudo terminals daemon - becoming a daemon err - message/error/debug/verbosity/alert messaging fio - fifo and file control and some I/O getopt - GNU getopt_long() for systems that don't have it hsort - generic heap sort lim - POSIX.1 limits convenience functions link - abstract linked lists with optional growable free lists list - list (growable pointer array) data type locker - abstract locking and reader/writer lock implementation map - map (hash table) data type mem - memory helper functions, secure memory, memory pools msg - message handling and syslog helper functions net - network functions (clients/servers, expect/send, pack/unpack, mail) prog - program framework and flexible command line option handling prop - program properties files pseudo - pseudo terminals sig - ISO C compliant signal handling snprintf - safe sprintf for systems that don't have it str - string data type (tr, regex, regsub, fmt, trim, lc, uc, ...) vsscanf - sscanf() with va_list argument for systems that don't have it -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL: https://libslack.org URL: https://raf.org/libslack GIT: https://github.com/raforg/libslack GIT: https://codeberg.org/raforg/libslack Date: 20230824 Author: raf