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`-lite`: The missing C-lib functions
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Libite, or `-lite`, is a light-weight library of utility functions and
missing C library functions.
Helper Macros
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- `blkdev(dev)`
Create block device
- `chardev(dev)`
Create character device
- `erase(path)`
Erase file/directory with `remove()`. Errors on stderr
- `makedir(path)`
Create directory, like `mkdir()`. Errors on stderr
- `makefifo(path)`
Create a FIFO, like `mkfifo()`. Errors on stderr
- `touch(path)`
Create a file, or update mtime. Errors on stderr
- `S_ISEXEC(mode_t m)`
Mysteriously missing from GLIBC
- `UNUSED(var)`
Shorter and more readable version of `var __attribute__ ((unused))`
Generic Functions
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- `chomp(str)`
Perl like chomp function, chop off last char if newline.
- `copyfile(src, dst, len, symlink)`
Like the shell `cp(1)` and `dd(1),` can also create symlinks.
- `dir(dir, ext, filter, list, strip)`
Wrapper for `scandir()` with optional filter. Returns a list of
names: files and directories that must be freed after use. See
the unit test at the bottom for an example.
- `fexist(file)`
Check for the existance of a file, returns True(1) or False(0).
- `fisdir(path)`
Check for the existance of a directory, returns True(1) or False(0).
- `fmode(file)`
Returns the `mode_t` bits of a file or directory.
- `rsync(src, dst, delete, *filter())`
Very simple `rsync()` to copy files files and directories
recursively.
- `tempfile()`
Secure replacement for `tmpfile()`. Creates an invisible temporary
file in `/tmp` that is removed when the returned %FILE pointer is
closed.
OpenBSD Functions
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The following are the popular OpenBSD string functions.
- `strlcpy(dst, src, len)`
- `strlcat(dst, src, len)`
- `strtonum()`
TODO
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- Improve documentation, possibly use kdoc or gdoc2 to generate docs from API.
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