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 Libosl is simple:
 
 
 Libosl is simple:
 

-       - For libosl, all data stored in the osl tables are blobs,
-       libosl will never try to interpret the table contents.
+- For libosl, all data stored in the osl tables are blobs,
+libosl will never try to interpret the table contents.

 
 

-       - There is no fancy query language but only a relatively
-       simple C-API.
+- There is no fancy query language but only a relatively
+simple C-API.

 
 

-       - There's no support for network-access and libosl does not
-       use any table locking.
+- There's no support for network-access and libosl only uses a very
+rudimentary table locking mechanism.
+
+- There are no dependencies on external libraries. An augmented
+version of the red-black tree implementation of the linux
+kernel is in included in the libosl package.

 
 Libosl is fast:
 
 
 Libosl is fast:
 

-       - It uses sha1 hashes for content-based addressing.
+- It uses sha1 hashes for content-based addressing.

 
 

-        - An augmented version of the rbtree implementation of the
-        linux kernel is used for lookups.
+- Red-black trees are used to make lookups fast.

 
 Libosl is portable:
 
 
 Libosl is portable:
 

-       - It is known to compile and run on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD,
-       NetBSD and Solaris.
+- It is known to compile and run on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD,
+NetBSD and Solaris.

 
 

-       - Content and metadata is stored in an endian-agnostic way.
+- Content and metadata is stored in an endian-agnostic way.

 
 Libosl is open source:
 
 
 Libosl is open source:
 

-       - Licensed under the GPL, version 2.
+- Licensed under the GPL, version 2.

 
 Apart from the library itself, the package also contains simple
 examples and an fsck program, oslfsck, which can be used to recover
 
 Apart from the library itself, the package also contains simple
 examples and an fsck program, oslfsck, which can be used to recover