Libc VS nt5src

Compare Libc vs nt5src and see what are their differences.

nt5src

Source code of Windows XP (NT5). Leaks are not from me. I just extracted the archive and cabinet files. (by tongzx)
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Libc nt5src
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0.0 0.0
about 4 years ago almost 2 years ago
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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 ;)

nt5src

Posts with mentions or reviews of nt5src. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-24.
  • The Format Dialog in Windows NT
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024
    I think he's misremembering about the format part because the UI does have some arbitrary cluster sizes for NTFS: https://github.com/lianthony/NT4.0/blob/b4a8d373d8a082db6758...

    That code still seemed to be around in (some versions of) XP: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...

    As for the ZIP support, I can't find the source code for ZIP folders specifically. There's this excerpt from another company (Schlumberger Technology Corp.): https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b... which was added in 1996 if the comments are to be believed.

  • Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2024
  • Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023
    Go likes to ignore edge cases ("all file names are UTF-8 and if they aren't then we'll just pretend they are") to make it easier to write code, so I'm not very surprised that it got caught in a POSIX related crash here.

    It's hard to tell if Microsoft altered the source code since, but the leaked XP source code (https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/master/Source/XPSP1/NT...) doesn't seem to do any getenv() calls for DNS lookups. The specific bug that started all this nonsense only triggers on (specific) Unix implementations. Unfortunately, Go opts to call the POSIX methods rather than GetEnvironmentVariable/SetEnvironmentVariable on Windows, so I suppose it's still possible that somewhere in the chain this bug gets triggered by Go code.

  • does IE have any future?
    1 project | /r/browsers | 28 Dec 2022
    You can view the IE source code but it isn't open source, so you cannot do much with it.
  • Is there any way to opt out of Github's Copilot?
    1 project | /r/programming | 5 Sep 2022
  • Copilot just sells code other people wrote
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Libc and nt5src you can also consider the following projects:

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

NT5.1 - Windows NT 5.0 kernel source code.

htshells - Self contained htaccess shells and attacks

NT4.0 - Windows NT 4.0 source code leak

go - The Go programming language

fast_inv_sqrt - attempt to understand the _evil floating point bit level hacking_

Libc

WinNT4 - Windows NT4 Kernel Source code

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.

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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

glibc - Unofficial mirror of sourceware glibc repository. Updated daily.