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Resources for development in OpenBSD

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• BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer

  http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=help.doc.network.sockets&F=1111111111&G=Y
  Crash course in programming BSD sockets

• Building an OpenBSD port

  http://www.openbsd.org/porting.html
  Information on porting software to OpenBSD.

• OpenBSD - owc / odc

  http://www.squish.net/openbsd/
  Mailing lists hosted by Squish.net that collate the OpenBSD source-changes and email summary reports daily or weekly.

• OpenBSD commit stats

  http://www.oxide.org/cvs/
  Statistics on the number, type, and originator of commits to the OpenBSD CVS repository.

• OpenBSD Hardware Sensors — Environmental Monitoring and Fan Control

  https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/5234
  A Master of Mathematics in Computer Science graduate thesis around the topic of hardware monitoring and fan control from the point of view of OpenBSD hardware sensors framework. In addition to a thorough discussion of OpenBSD, the thesis also touches the topic of hardware monitoring in other operating systems, like NetBSD, FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD, and lm_sensors in GNU/Linux.

• OpenBSD source code

  http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/
  The complete OpenBSD CVS source code repository.

• Porting BSD UNIX to a New Platform

  http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/291.paper/291.paper.html
  Paper discussing what is entailed in porting the BSD codebase to a new architecture.

• PPP userland tools

  http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html
  Latest docs and sources for userland PPP for OpenBSD.

• Quiet Computing with BSD

  http://sensors.cnst.su/fanctl/
  Fan control with sysctl hw.sensors and lm(4) on OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD.

• strlcpy and strlcat--Consistent, Safe, String Copy and Concatenation

  http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/millert.html
  Whitepaper by OpenBSD developers Todd C. Miller and Theo de Raadt discussing secure programming functions for manipulating strings.

• The Kame Project

  http://www.kame.net/
  Project to develop IPv6 and IPsec stack for use in BSD-based operating systems. Included in the OpenBSD sources since OpenBSD 2.7 Release.

• Unofficial OpenBSD pathces

  http://www.comsys.com.ua/files/
  List of unofficial OpenBSD pathces done by Sergey Smitienko.

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