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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:51:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc>
Cc: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@NewGold.NET>, <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Generalisation of Base64 function prototypes.
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> 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/

  libutil?

  Kelly
  kbyanc@{posi.net,FreeBSD.org}


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