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Date:      Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:48:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        "Vadim A. Shklyaev" <lexxmail@front.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: mpd-3.10 and MySQL
Message-ID:  <200212252048.gBPKm84w043989@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <10515631078.20021224111201@front.ru>

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Vadim A. Shklyaev wrote:
>     One more question, some time back a man, who had made a RADIUS
>     patch asked you, whether can he hook directly in AuthGetData in
>     auth.c, and you answered that that would be incorrect. I
>     wondering, why? As you can see, I have rewritten every place,
>     where AuthGetData is called, but IMHO it would be easier to modify
>     just auth.c. What is right?

AuthGetData() is the "right" place to do that, except that if your
operation blocks for a long time (e.g., while accessing some external
resource) then mpd itself will block too (mpd is event-driven, not
threaded), so any other links that might be doing negotiation, LCP
echoes, etc. will be delayed. In practice this is rarely a problem
unless you are doing lots of links simultaneously.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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