Comment # 5 on bug 1176742 from Malte Kraus

(In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #4)
> 
> Definitely. IIRC I've heard of a library which implements several of such
> primitives in a secure way, so if that's license compatible it could be used
> (or copied, as it's past dep freeze). I don't know where I found that anymore
> though, maybe you know something?
> 

You may be thinking of https://github.com/openSUSE/libpathrs