This project aims to give portable solutions to our current problem: missing core tooling in the musl distribution.
getconf is used throughout many shell scripts and utilities to obtain system configuration values and paths. It is present on almost every *nix compatible OS.
getent extracts values from system databases, such as shadow, files and hosts.
NOTE: This tool is still in development and is not shipping in the tarball.
This won't be our immediate focus, but we will need mDNS support for our use case and even upstream musl has expressed interest in a future mDNS solution.
While many variants of getconf and getent do exist in various BSD distributions,
and indeed, resourced for a handful of Linux distributions, the age, history and
quality can not all be assessed.
We will seek clean-room implementations with verifiable git history, proper tagging, documentation and static analysis.
Original author Jouni Roivas
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