[ANNOUNCE] libbsd 0.3.0 released

Mark Heily mark at heily.com
Thu Jun 2 17:09:31 PDT 2011


On 06/02/2011 02:16 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The main purpose of the project is to keep collecting useful functions
> and macros commonly found on BSD systems on basic libraries like libc or
> libutil, and lacking on others like GNU systems, thus making it easier
> to port code from BSDs, without needing to embed the same code over and
> over again on each project.
>
> It currently assumes mostly a GNU based system to run on, but I'd gladly
> accept patches or make it build on other systems if people would request
> it or report build or runtime issues.
>

Looks good, glad to see this project is moving forward. I especially like 
the concept of overlaying the GNU system headers to add additional 
functionality.

I have been working on a project to port kqueue(2) from BSD to other 
operating systems. Here's the link:

   http://mark.heily.com/project/libkqueue

Perhaps this would make a useful addition to libbsd?

Regards,

  - Mark


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