The distance library is used to compare pieces of data for similarity.
Specifically, it contains a number of methods to find the "edit distance"
between inputs, or the number of differences between them. These differences
are calculated using various mechanisms. The inputs to these functions can be
character strings or arbitrary data.
Libdnsres provides a non-blocking thread-safe API for resolving DNS names. It
requires that your main application is built on top of libevent. Libdnsres' API
essentially mirrors the traditional gethostbyname and getaddrinfo interfaces.
All return values have been replaced by callbacks instead.
The code borrows heavily from the BSD resolver library. In fact, it is an
extremely ugly hack to make the BSD resolver library non-blocking and
thread-safe without changing the API too much.
The libdwarf library is the base for the dwarfdump utility
by the same author. It implements routines to access the
DWARF debugging information found in ELF object files.
Libeio is a full-featured asynchronous I/O library for C, modelled in
similar style and spirit as libev.
Features include: asynchronous read, write, open, close, stat, unlink,
fdatasync, mknod, readdir etc. (basically the full POSIX API), sendfile
(native on Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, FreeBSD, emulated everywhere else),
read-ahead (emulated where not available). It is fully event-library
agnostic and can easily be integrated into any event-library (or used
standalone, even in polling mode).
Libconfig is a simple library for manipulating structured configuration
files. The file format is more compact and more readable than XML. And
unlike XML, it is type-aware, so it is not necessary to do string
parsing in application code.
Libconfig is very compact -- just 25K for the stripped C shared library
(one-fifth the size of the expat XML parser library) and 39K for the
stripped C++ shared library. This makes it well-suited for
memory-constrained systems like handheld devices.
The library includes bindings for both the C and C++ languages. It works
on POSIX-compliant UNIX systems (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD)
and Windows (2000, XP and later).
Lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX daemons
Privman is a library that makes it easy for programs to use privilege
separation, a technique that prevents the leak or misuse of privilege
from applications that must run with some elevated permissions. The
Privman library simplifies the otherwise complex task of separating
the application, protecting the system from compromise if an error in
the application logic is found.
Applications that use the Privman library split into two halves, the
half that performs valid privileged operations, and the half that
contains the application's logic. The library uses configuration files
to provide fine-grained access control for the privileged operations,
limiting exposure in even of an attack against the application. When
the application is compromised, the attacker gains only the privileges
of an unprivileged user and the specific privileges granted to the
application by the application's Privman configuration file.
Libev is a high-performance event loop/event model with lots of features.
It is modelled (very loosely) after libevent and the Event perl module,
but aims to be faster and more correct, and also more featureful. And
also smaller.
libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. It moves the common
tasks when dealing with evdev devices into a library and provides a
library interface to the callers, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls, etc.
The eventual goal is that libevdev wraps all ioctls available to evdev
devices, thus making direct access unnecessary.
Libewf is a library for support of the Expert Witness Compression Format
(EWF), it support both the SMART (EWF-S01) and EnCase (EWF-E01) format.
Libewf allows you to read and write EWF files. Recent versions also
support the LEV (EWF-L01) format.