Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:51:35 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc> To: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@NewGold.NET> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generalisation of Base64 function prototypes. Message-ID: <20020217015135.GA46829@madman.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <20020216030032.A12929@NewGold.NET> References: <20020216030032.A12929@NewGold.NET>
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Just a couple'o'comments: On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:00:33AM +0000, J. Mallett wrote: > Hello, > I've been working on base64 ala MIME support for uudecode(1) and > uuencode(1), as part of standards conformance projects. Rather than > re-implement base64 stuff inline, I looked high and low for base64 > functions in libc. Please see also src/lib/roken/base64.h and src/lib/roken/base64.c. These are part of Heimdal Kerberos. libroken is currently installed in /usr/lib, but the base64.h header file is not. > Except of course, what I proposed above the prototypes > and preprocessor definitions I so hastily inserted, and that is moving > b64_* stuff from <resolv.h> to <stdlib.h>. IMHO this kind of thing doesn't belong in <stdlib.h>. If it is to be made a general facility, I think a seperate header file is what is called for. libroken is meant to be a kitchen sink. I don't think libc should, but it is. In the future, we will probably not install libroken at all --- just use it during the build of the Kerberos bits. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc> http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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