libskarnet
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The stddjb library interface

libstddjb is the base, and the most important part, of skalibs. It is a set of general-purpose C functions wrapping some system calls, hiding some Unix portability problems, providing some basic low-level buffering functions and string handling, and generally offering a nice API to Unix programming - in many ways nicer and safer than the "standard" Unix APIs like stdio.h.

It is mostly based on some excellent code written and placed into the public domain by D. J. Bernstein.

Compiling

Programming

The following headers are automatically generated at compile-time, when the headers subsystem is made. The skalibs/stddjb.h file also includes them.

Additionally, stddjb.h also includes the following headers, which are not associated with any code and are mostly self-explanatory: