New APIs and Commands

HP and Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) have jointly developed a 64-bit common Application Programming Interface (API) specification. The API specification is based on the practical convergence of HP-UX and SCO UnixWare to provide software developers with a consistent platform for developing applications on UNIX platforms. HP-UX will conform to the specification over time.

In the 11.0 release, a new library and six new APIs as well as two new commands are introduced. These interfaces are new to HP-UX but they have been available on SCO's UnixWare. In addition, many HP-UX commands have been changed to conform with the specification. Some additional features make the interfaces more robust. See individual command descriptions in “Changed User Commands in Section 1” and “Changed System Management Commands in Section 1M” in Chapter 8 for impacted commands.

See find(1) and make(1) command descriptions for improvement in performance.

libgen

The following six new library interfaces are now available in a new library named libgen:

bgets(3G) - read stream up to next delimiter

bufsplit(3G) - split buffer into fields

copylist(3G) - copy a file into memory

mkdirp(3G), rmdirp(3G) - create, remove directories in a path

pathfind(3G) - search for named file in named directories

fmt(1) and infocmp(1M)

The following two new commands are now available:

fmt(1) - a simple text formatter that fills and joins lines to output lines of (up to) the number of characters specified in its -w width option.

	NOTE: Prior to the 11.0 release, HP-UX provided a proprietary command, called fmt(1M), to format an HP SCSI disk array LUN. This disk formatting command has been renamed to format(1M).

infocmp(1M) - compares or prints out terminfo descriptions.