Fifos

libshbuf introduces a new IPC concept: the "shared buffer", a more flexible and faster alternative for standard Unix FIFOs. Take some shared memory, flavour it with semaphore-based locking and change notifications, and refine it with an easy-to-use API and you get libshbufs "shared buffers".. Platforms: *nix

Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security-related features for the Linux kernel, all configurable via the new Security options configuration section. In addition to the new features, some versions of the patch contain various security fixes. The number of such fixes changes from... Platforms: *nix

CLIPC is an open-source Java library that gives developers interprocess communications (IPC) capabilities that may be absent or difficult to use in the Java distribution. In particular it provides the following: .Shared Memory .FIFOs .Semaphores Some of these are wholly new mechanisms made... Platforms: Mac

WxLib is a widely resuable C++ library that converts many facilities that are found in the standard C library into a form that is more appropriate for use in a C++ context. The library wraps functions for dealing with threads, files, FIFOs, serial I/O, sockets, and directories. WxLib library... Platforms: *nix

The bastard disassembler is a disassembler written for x86 ELF targets on Linux. Other file formats/CPUs can be plugged in. It has a command-line interface and is meant to be used as a backend or engine. Support for controlling the disassembler via pipes is provided. Note that this disassembler... Platforms: *nix

RADLib is a graphics library. It was written in order to help developers design graphics applications easily and quickly. The library is available for .NET, Java, Delphi, Kylix. Platforms: Mac

Burp is a backup and restore program. It uses librsync in order to save on the amount of space that is used by each backup. It also uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to make snapshots when backing up Windows computers. It is open source free software (where 'free' means both that you do not... Platforms: Windows

Check if your backups really work Hey there OS X user! Do you back up your files? Of course you do! (Right? Right???) But do your backups work? Really? Are you sure? Have you checked? Backup Bouncer is here to help keep the ugly backup tools out of the club. It's a command-line-based test suite... Platforms: Mac