This library holds utility functions for working with string buffers in C.

The library has been extracted from libgit2 internal functions, and to make them available for use for other programs, and is used in production at GitHub.

To build this library use make, which will generate the libbuffer.so.0 shared library.

Similarly, to install it on your system, you can use make install.

The tests can be run using make test.

libbuffer is under GPL2 with linking exception. This means you can link to and use the library from any program, proprietary or open source; paid or gratis. However, if you modify libbuffer itself, you must distribute the source to your modified version of libbuffer.

See the COPYING file for the full license text.