About:
libowfat aims to reimplement the API defined by Prof. Dan Bernstein as extracted in the libdjb project. However, the reimplementation is covered by the GNU General Public License. The API is also extended slightly.

Author:
Felix von Leitner [contact developer]

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8.54/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.fefe.de/libowfat/
Tar/BZ2:
http://dl.fefe.de/libowfat-0.21.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://www.fefe.de/libowfat/changes-0.21.txt

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Other Environment
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.21	31-Jan-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] License?
by Aristotle Pagaltzis - Feb 21st 2004 15:04:49

I don't know how deliberate your choice of license was; if you haven't before, it might be worth considering making this available under LGPL instead of GPL.

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[»] Completely changes how you thing about strings!
by Sean Hunter - Jan 31st 2002 04:52:19

Libowfat is a very useful tool in any C programmer's arsenal because it makes it very easy to build strings safely and securely without worrying about buffer overruns and hidden printf problems. Using it in conjunction with read(2) and write(2), its possible to avoid using the printf family of functions altogether!

It took me a little while to get used to this new paradigm, but I find it makes things a lot better.

Highly recommended

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