X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=osl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c9606ae1618b942671384b6157461e4dc8e05156;hp=7fa350ada20490977e11e770f3fe0d96b0059b91;hb=c2e27a85d7a7b8d4ce734c88f9ff1493b87a5789;hpb=b784b2a33146988ac3d1bf7b4a2726f7d107255f diff --git a/README b/README index 7fa350a..c9606ae 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ libosl will never try to interpret the table contents. - There is no fancy query language but only a relatively simple C-API. -- There's no network support for network-access and libosl -only uses a very rudimentary table locking mechanism. +- 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. +kernel is included in the libosl package. Libosl is fast: @@ -27,16 +27,29 @@ Libosl is fast: 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, FreeBSD, NetBSD. It might +work on other Unix systems as well. - Content and metadata is stored in an endian-agnostic way. Libosl is open source: -- Licensed under the GPL, version 2. +- Licensed under the [GNU General Public License, Version +2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html) Apart from the library itself, the package also contains simple examples and an fsck program, oslfsck, which can be used to recover from corrupted tables due to system crashes or bugs in the application or the library. + +Resources: + +- Git clone URL: git://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/osl.git +- [Gitweb](http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/osl.git) +- [Author Home Page](http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan) +- [Project Page](http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/osl) +- Email: [Andre Noll](mailto:maan@tuebingen.mpg.de) + +Comments and bug reports are welcome. Please provide enough info +such as the version of osl you are using and relevant parts of +the logs.