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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