The system is an embedded system. However, it is quite powerful in the sense it has a dual core CPU and ample RAM. It is running just a standard linux desktop distro right now during the prototype stage.
The applications on top have no requirement to be portable. Since there was enough resources, I thought using these libraries is good enough and I don't have to worry about reinventing the wheel. > > 1. Mounting USB disks, partitions, and samba shares. > > - Suckless alternative: libc, libmount? > > Why not just use mount(1) and mount(2)? > GIO/gvfs had interfaces to do mounts asynchronously and call a callback function when it was done. > > > 3. Spawn tasks asynchronously and return the stderr and stdout > > output. > > - Suckless alternative: libspawn > > popen(3), or just fork/dup2/exec. Is there a way to do these asynchronously? > > > > 4. Dictionary data type to store key value pairs. > > - Suckless alternative: hash table with libc? > > tsearch and friends from search.h > Will take a look at those. > > > 5. String utility > > - Suckless alternative: libporty > > What do you want to do? There's string.h.. > If you want regexes there are several libraries for that I used a lot of the join and cat functions from the glib library. Not currently using any regexes. Thanks for the responses, Amit
