[Savannah-register-public] [task #10687] Submission of libpipeline

[Colin Watson]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?10687>

                 Summary: Submission of libpipeline
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: cjwatson
            Submitted on: Tue Oct 12 01:24:36 2010
         Should Start On: Tue Oct 12 00:00:00 2010
   Should be Finished on: Fri Oct 22 00:00:00 2010
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


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= Registration Details =

* Name: *libpipeline*
* System Name:  *libpipeline*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later (libpipeline makes use of
GPLv3-or-later elements from Gnulib, so the work as a whole is currently
GPLv3-or-later.  I've considered using the LGPL and decided against it,
essentially for the reasons suggested in
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html.)

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==== Description: ====
libpipeline is a C library for setting up and running pipelines of processes,
without needing to involve shell command-line parsing which is often
error-prone and insecure.  This alleviates programmers of the need to
laboriously construct pipelines using lower-level primitives such as fork and
execve.


==== Other Software Required: ====
None.


==== Other Comments: ====
I'm splitting this library out of man-db, a project currently hosted on
Savannah, as described on my blog:

 
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2010-10-03-pipeline-library.html

I've been able to find nothing comparable as a standalone free software C
library (as opposed to the occasional partial attempt embedded in some other
project, or facilities in higher-level languages), and I frequently see
programmers creating security vulnerabilities by constructing strings to pass
to system(3) and popen(3).  I want to be able to recommend them a library that
isn't horribly broken and is straightforward to use.  Having been working on
it on and off for five years, I believe that this is that library.

I've only just split this out of man-db, so I'm not quite satisfied with the
API yet, but the attached tarball should be good enough for a hosting review. 
Thanks!


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/libpipeline-1.0.0-pre1.tar.gz






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