Libc vs freebsd-src

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The FreeBSD src tree publish-only repository. Experimenting with 'simple' pull requests.... (by freebsd)

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Libc		freebsd-src
	Project
4	Mentions	133
6	Stars	7,531
-	Growth	1.4%
0.0	Activity	10.0
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Libc

Posts with mentions or reviews of Libc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-19.

Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023

[3] https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/Libc/blob/master...
Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2023

Doesn't musl have the same issue? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/34726#issuecomment...
I also wonder about OSX's libc. Newer versions seem to have some sort of locking https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/Libc/blob/master...
but older versions (from 10.9) don't have any lockign: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Libc/blob/Libc-99...
Regex and gcc versions
5 projects | /r/C_Programming | 14 May 2022
Null
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2021

All three are probably using glibc, which does that, yes. On Darwin Apple’s libc prints “(null)”: https://github.com/apple-open-source-mirror/Libc/blob/5e566b.... I should also note that passing a non-null pointer to printf is the only correct way to use it ;)

freebsd-src

Posts with mentions or reviews of freebsd-src. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.

You shouldn't run a BSD on a PC
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024
Linux Crisis Tools
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2024
What about the vfs.zfs.bclone_enabled sysctl now?
1 project | /r/freebsd | 11 Dec 2023
Personal FreeBSD PKGBASE Update Server
2 projects | /r/freebsd | 9 Dec 2023

2023-06-26: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/ee0aa1ce12b3caea34477a31e9d2111a329e33b9 to main (tagged release/14.0.0).
What version of ZFS at FreeBSD solves the block cloning issue?
1 project | /r/freebsd | 8 Dec 2023
Installing FreeBSD 14 Stable on an T480 Laptop w/ an Encrypted Home Directory
1 project | /r/freebsd | 6 Dec 2023

It's not yet in FreeBSD base so if you want to test it you'll have to use the patch from the PR: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/881
FreeBSD 14.0 Delivering Great Performance Uplift
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023

Lots of great work by many people. But I bet this guy and his optimizations to the vfs and locking has made a significant impact.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commits?author=mjguzi...
ZFS 2.2.1: Block Cloning disabled due to data corruption
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2023

and then there were deep concerns about the stability of same, so vfs.zfs.bclone_enabled = 0 was left in-place
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/068913e4ba3dd9...
FreeBSD 14.0-Release Announcement
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2023

Well there are some examples:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/share/examp...
But yeah that pf.conf could be expanded allot, but there are many source to cobble a conf together. My conf is massive but 99.9% commented out so i have my "template" for nearly everything, from mail to web to blacklistd etc.
Git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2023

The BSD version is sort of very recent, for what it's worth -- FreeBSD imported a not fully functional version in 2017 and has seen more work on it in 2022: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commits/main/usr.bin/... , but the default version shipped is still GNU diff3: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diff3&apropos=0&se... .

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Libc and freebsd-src you can also consider the following projects:

musl - unofficial musl mirror git://git.musl-libc.org/musl

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

htshells - Self contained htaccess shells and attacks

go - The Go programming language

darwin-xnu - Legacy mirror of Darwin Kernel. Replaced by https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu

Libc

src - Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official CVS src repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the tech@ mailing list.

big-list-of-naughty-strings - The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.

ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.

src - Automatic conversion of the NetBSD src CVS module, use with care. Please submit bugs/changes via https://gnats.netbsd.org

coreutils - upstream mirror