Libslack is a library of general utilities designed to make
UNIX
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C programming a bit easier on the eye. It is a seemingly random collection of modules and functions. It was originally implemented as part of the "daemon" program (although some of the code dates back much further).
It's a small
library
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with much functionality, accurately documented and thoroughly tested. Good library naming conventions are not rigorously observed on the principle that common operations should always be easy to write and code should always be easy to read.
Libslack is freely available under the
GNU General Public License
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See also
{{Portal, Free and open-source software
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glibc
The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project's implementation of the C standard library. Despite its name, it now also directly supports C++ (and, indirectly, other programming languages). It was started in the 1980s by ...
External links
libslack homepage
C (programming language) libraries
Free computer libraries