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doalarm

Run commands under an alarm, either setitimer(2) or RLIMIT_CPU. Man page

fdsend

Flexible file and file descriptor passing for Python. Overview.

File-FnMatch

fnmatch(3) in Perl.

POSIX-RT-Semaphore

Perl bindings to POSIX 1.b semaphores.

pynids

Maintained at oberheide.org. Python bindings to libnids.

python-cdb

Maintained by Alan Grow. Python bindings to D. J. Bernstein's constant database file format.

rewind0

Trivial shell convenience: rewind stdin in a shell script.

shuffle

Trivial shell convenience: shuffle command-line arguments. Man page.

Socket-MsgHdr

Perl extension for sendmsg(2) and recvmsg(2) socketry.

svdir

Ruby interface to the "service directory" style of robust daemon process supervision found daemontools and runit.

unmaintained

dnslook

Python interface to DJB's high-level DNS routines. README and example.

pysavi

Python bindings to Sophos libSAVI (anti-virus) interface. Overview.