e-POSIX

Maintainer

Berend de Boer

Description

e-POSIX gives Eiffel programmers access to the Unix API, as raw calls and also with full Design By Contract support.

The goal of e-POSIX is to provide a 100% complete Eiffel binding to Standard C and POSIX. It has started adding bindings for the » Single Unix Specification.

On Windows systems, a portability layer allows you to create native Windows programs. The » Cygwin UNIX emulator is also supported, but not needed.

e-POSIX file and socket classes can be used as a plugin where Gobo Eiffel's KI_INPUT_STREAM and KI_OUTPUT_STREAM are expected.

Categories

• Libraries - CGI and Web Apps
• Libraries - Files & Directories
• Libraries - Logging
• Libraries - Processes
• Libraries - Sockets

Versions

• 2.4.1 (2006-06-01) (» release notes)
• 2.5 (2006-05-31) beta (for Gobo CVS)

Links

• » Overview and downloads
• » Documentation
• » Author's home page

Features

• Unicode safe
• Standard C file streams
• POSIX file descriptors
• POSIX file locking
• Forking
• Daemons
• Signal handling including POSIX signal sets
• POSIX shared memory
• Memory maps
• Asynchronous input/output
• Full socket support (tcp/udp/unix) on Unix; tcp/udp on Windows
• Non-blocking accept in the socket classes
• Sockets, file descriptors and streams are plug-compatible with Gobo Eiffel
• MIME parsing
• URI parsing
• HTTP client and server
• IMAP4 client
• SMTP, FTP, IRC clients
• Interface to openssl
• XML and XHTML generation
• Form building and file uploading support for CGI
• ULM based logging for Unix and Windows

Supported compilers

• ISE Eiffel 5.6
• SmartEiffel 1.2r7 transitional
• Visual Eiffel 5.0

Platforms

• BeOS
• FreeBSD
• Linux
• QNX
• Windows (Cygwin and Win32)

Licensing

• » Eiffel Forum License Version 2

Dependencies

• Gobo Eiffel 3.4

Support

• » e-POSIX mailing list (Yahoo Groups)
• Commercial training and support is available from Berend de Boer

Packages using e-POSIX

• AutoTest by Andreas Leitner and Ilinca Ciupa
• Gestalt by Colin Paul Adams
• Kniffel by Andreas Leitner, Laure Gunther and Wolfgang Lazian
• swete by Neal Lester

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