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. Message-ID: <20020216185112.E62177-100000@gateway.posi.net> In-Reply-To: <20020217015135.GA46829@madman.nectar.cc>
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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} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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