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Commit fda8f266 authored by Colin Walters's avatar Colin Walters
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README.md: Some more rationale

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It is for modules which depend on both GLib and Linux, intended to be
used as a git submodule.
Features:
- File APIs which use `openat()` like APIs, but also take a `GCancellable`
to support dynamic cancellation
- APIs also have a `GError` parameter
- High level "shutil", somewhat inspired by Python's
- A "console" API for tty output
- Some basic container utility functions
- A backport of the GLib cleanup macros for projects which can't yet take
a dependency on 2.40.
Why?
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There are multiple projects which have a hard dependency on Linux and
GLib, such as NetworkManager, ostree, xdg-app, etc. It makes sense
for them to be able to share Linux-specific APIs.
This module also contains some code taken from systemd, which has very
high quality LGPLv2+ shared library code, but most of the internal
shared library is private, and not namespaced.
One could also compare this project to gnulib; the salient differences
there are that at least some of this module is eventually destined for
inclusion in GLib.
Porting from libgsystem
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