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| author | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2016-05-27 13:50:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2016-05-27 13:50:30 +0000 |
| commit | d755bcb89dbeaf6c7c1eca73ccabdf89b536c535 (patch) | |
| tree | a9fd93161fecebca4a942b3739cb48978aa66816 /doc/sysnotes.texi | |
| parent | common: Extend gnupg_create_inbound_pipe et al. (diff) | |
| download | gnupg-d755bcb89dbeaf6c7c1eca73ccabdf89b536c535.tar.gz gnupg-d755bcb89dbeaf6c7c1eca73ccabdf89b536c535.zip | |
build: Remove obsolete tests for funopen and fopencookie.
* configure.ac (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove tests for funopen.
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Meanwhile we are using the portable functions from libgpg-error.
Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/doc/sysnotes.texi b/doc/sysnotes.texi index a8cea877a..dec07bdae 100644 --- a/doc/sysnotes.texi +++ b/doc/sysnotes.texi @@ -11,28 +11,6 @@ right now, however there are probably a lot of smaller glitches we need to fix first. The major problem areas are: @itemize -@item -For logging to sockets and other internal operations the -@code{fopencookie} function (@code{funopen} under *BSD) is used. This -is a very convenient function which makes it possible to create outputs in -a structures and easy maintainable way. The drawback however is that -most proprietary OSes don't support this function. At g10@tie{}Code we -have looked into several ways on how to overcome this limitation but no -sufficiently easy and maintainable way has been found. Porting -@emph{glibc} to a general POSIX system is of course an option and would -make writing portable software much easier; this it has not yet been -done and the system administrator would need to cope with the GNU -specific admin things in addition to the generic ones of his system. - -We have now settled to use explicit stdio wrappers with a functionality -similar to funopen. Although the code for this has already been written -(@emph{libestream}), we have not yet changed GnuPG to use it. - -This means that on systems not supporting either @code{funopen} or -@code{fopencookie}, logging to a socket won't work, prompts are not -formatted as pretty as they should be and @command{gpgsm}'s -@code{LISTKEYS} Assuan command does not work. - @item We are planning to use file descriptor passing for interprocess communication. This will allow us save a lot of resources and improve @@ -78,9 +56,3 @@ The periodical smartcard status checking done by @command{scdaemon} is not yet supported. @end itemize - - - - - - |