An abstraction layer for common operating system services

This package is an experiment in rewriting various parts of stdlib's os module.

The goals are:

• To employ the use of destructors for resource lifetime management
• To provide simpler and more powerful interfaces to operating system services
• To abstract away OS differences and provide consistent and intuitive behaviors
• To reduce reliance on libc

Currently this project is a work-in-progress, and works here are aimed for upstreaming to the stdlib.

• API documentation

On-going projects

These stdlib modules are targeted for redesign/reimplementation (ordered by priority):

• osproc
• io
• os

Targets

This package primarily targets the following operating systems:

• Windows
• Linux
• macOS

There is also second-tier support for:

• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD
• POSIX-compatible OSes

These OS are not covered by automated testing, so they may break at any time.

License

This project is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

See license.txt for more details.