New repo request "stdplus"

[Vernon Mauery]

On 15-Oct-2018 02:44 PM, William Kennington wrote:
>I'd like to request a new repo be created where we can put universally
>used c++ functions and classes that any of our projects could inherit
>from. This would not be allowed to have any runtime dependencies
>outside of the typical built-in ones (libstdc++, libc, and the kernel
>syscall interface).
>
>Right now I've got a smart file descriptor and signal blocking
>function which I'd like to include. It would look something like
>(although I actually want to break this down into a uniquefd and
>dupablefd for the purposes of stdplus):
>https://github.com/openbmc/gpioplus/blob/1d97c45aa75957e9e8965e33f1f28985cf88d22d/src/gpioplus/internal/fd.hpp
>
>Let me know what you think,

I think a mmap interface might be nice to go in this library too. While 
there is a boost one, it does require linking against boost_filesystem 
IIRC. And it is a little heavy handed for most use cases.

--Vernon