Single-byte I/O for keytab reads
Ken Hornstein
kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Thu Jun 27 18:13:00 EDT 2002
>I would think that using unbuffered IO is fine provided that you read
>in large chunks.
I agree, but the whole structure of the keytab code is set up to read
in very small chunks. So if it needs to be rewritten, then no problem ...
that's just a lot of work compared to removing a few setbuf() calls :-)
(Although I hadn't appreciated the idea of wanting to make sure that the
private key doesn't appear in a core dump).
--Ken
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