[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Add an explanatory README to libisc.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


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eeda4b52 by Eric S. Raymond at 2016-09-11T08:25:05-04:00
Add an explanatory README to libisc.

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+The code in this directory derives from an old version (91) of
+the ISC export library shipped with BIND9.  Most of the code in that
+library was not needed and has been discarded.
+
+It now defines a largish number of small convenience functions for working
+with sockets, and one non-trivial piece of machinery; iteration over
+the system's list of active TCP/IP sockets. This functionality is not
+standardized by POSIX, so here we provide a wrapper around three different
+platform-specific APIs:
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+* The getifaddrs(3) library used on Linux and some *BSDs
+* The SIOCGLIFCONF ioctl used on Solaris and SunOS.
+* The sysctl() kernel call implemented on some BSDs.
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+There are a few other entry points supporting cryptographic hashing,
+assertions, and error backtraces.



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