I’m looking for a library or toolkit (so I don’t have to write it) that will allow me to do common things like the following in Linux:
- Get the uid for a username.
- Get user / group membership information.
- Get information about free space on disk drives.
- Any other potentially useful API calls that are not normally available in Java because they break portability.
Anyone out there have any ideas?
POSIX for Java sounds like a good place to start, at least. Remember that most of those things you listed are not ‘Linux’, they are just plain old POSIX.