The posixutils package is a collection of the utilities specified in the Single Unix Specification v3 (SuSv3).
This project asks the question:
What happens when the familiar shell utilities -- cp, rm, mv, etc. -- are written in modern C++, with full access to the C++11 compiler and library?
posixutils home page (untouched for years): http://sourceforge.net/projects/nix-utils/
posixutils source code repository, git protocol: https://github.com/jgarzik/posixutils.git
The SuSv3 specification is available online at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm
and the full list of all utilities we plan to implement is at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/utilities.html
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Using the full power of C++11 compiler and standard library, including templates, threads, atomics and more.
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race-free userland (as near as possible given the POSIX file interface and the kernel, anyway)
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clean, maintainable codebase targetted at >=32-bit machines. avoid #ifdefs. When a utility is not often used, such as compress(1), readability, and maintainability are considered more important than performance.
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correctness is always more important than performance.
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stay as close to the SuSv3 specification as possible. avoid frivolous feature addition, with two exceptions: a) common legacy features b) popular GNU utils features
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Initial OS target is Linux, and use of Linux-specific features is encouraged. On the other hand, porting to another OS is also encouraged.