libusb is a

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that provides applications with access for controlling

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to and from

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devices on

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and non-Unix systems, without the need for

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drivers.

Availability

libusb is currently available for

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, the

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, Android, and

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. It is written in C. Amongst other applications, the library is used by SANE, the Linux scanner project, in preference to the kernel scanner module, which is restricted to

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2.4.

References

External links

* USB C (programming language) libraries Free computer libraries {{Unix-stub

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