For a moment I thought someone wrote a free-software library wrapping the ugly standard C library with sensible and safe calls.

Now I’m going to think all weekend of it

This comes in handy for releasing closed source programs on Linux:

• Compiling on Linux Without Libc
• Minimal OpenGL X11 Demo

You can dlopen every possible filename under the sun to account for distro stupidity, and give a helpful error message if they all fail.