libposix

libposix is a bold attempt to unify the implementation of the core functionality of all Unix systems. libposix is:

• A full implementation of the POSIX 2008 standard
• A cross platform implementation, that should replace existing implementations of the system core libraries and unify the core Unix implementation for all systems
• An exact implementation of POSIX 2008 and nothing else (no extensions, no previous POSIX versions)
• An implementation that works well with possible extensions to the core system functionallity (ex: GNU, BSD)
• An implementation of POSIX written from scratch
• Free and open source software

The main goal of the libposix project is to successfully replace free Unix "libc" implementations with an implementation that is portable, conformant, easy to build, to cross-build, to use, to study and to mantain. Read more about libposix in the introduction page.

We've been pretty busy implementing essential features in libposix for the last weeks. We've successfully migrated our build system to CMake, a cross-platform mantainer-friendly build system. We've also chosen an initial goal in our roadmap for the release of libposix 0.1.0, which is implementing support for bzip2, a well known compression application. Read the full news for more information, including the printf parser, TaskFreak and the choice of a "mixed" test driven development methodology.

I'm happy to announce that libposix is able to run "Hello World" in three different platforms: linux x86, linux x86_64 and FreeBSD x86 ! Full announcement at SF news.

Now libposix is able to run "Hello World" in linux. :-P Anonymous git access available with:

git clone git://libposix.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libposix

Obviously, current conformance status is "works on my machine". :-P Please test and report bugs to the tracker. The full announcement is available at SF news

Yes, but this one is different, I swear. ;-) See the comparison page to understand why this project is different from all the others.