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author | Linus Nordberg <linus@nordberg.se> | 2013-01-21 10:50:53 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Nordberg <linus@nordberg.se> | 2013-01-21 10:59:42 +0100 |
commit | b8260ee68d9bc60f3204f860cc6919964a6e9464 (patch) | |
tree | f463a573a83951fb229a358425e08d9c7484268b /lib/HACKING | |
parent | 8f6155f3fa89f0b8c16bdc3b73db2d479105aab4 (diff) |
Update README and HACKING.libradsec-new-client
Whitespace fixes.
Say Debian instead of Ubuntu.
Update versions of library dependencies.
HACKING:
Revive the "fully reentrant" design goal.
Admit that we don't implement a server API.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/HACKING')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/HACKING | 31 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/HACKING b/lib/HACKING index 36287b8..b9ccd6b 100644 --- a/lib/HACKING +++ b/lib/HACKING @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ examples/client -r examples/client.conf blocking-tls; echo $? - Application runs its own event loop, using fd's for select and performs I/O using the libradsec send/receive calls (a.k.a. on-your-own mode) +- Fully reentrant - User chooses allocation regime Note that as of 0.0.2.dev libradsec suffers from way too much focus on @@ -25,20 +26,19 @@ the behaviour of a blocking client and is totally useless as a server. Not only does it lack most of the functions needed for writing a server but it also contains at least one architectural mishap which kills the server idea -- a connection timeout (TCP) or a retransmit -timeout (UDP) will result in the event loop being broken. The same +timeout (UDP) will result in the event loop being broken. The same thing will happen if there's an error on a TCP connection, f.ex. a failing certificate validation (TLS). + * Dependencies -Details apply to Ubuntu 10.10. +Details (within parentheses) apply to Debian Wheezy. -- libconfuse (2.7-1) +- libconfuse (2.7-4) sudo apt-get install libconfuse-dev libconfuse0 -- libevent from source (release-2.0.10-stable) - git clone --branch release-2.0.10-stable git://levent.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/levent/levent - cd levent; sh autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-openssl - make && sudo make install -- OpenSSL (optional, for TLS and DTLS support) - sudo apt-get install libssl-dev +- libevent2 (2.0.19-stable-3) + sudo apt-get install libevent-dev libevent-2.0-5 +- OpenSSL (1.0.1c-4) -- optional, for TLS and DTLS support + sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libssl1.0.0 * Functionality and quality ** Not well tested @@ -48,22 +48,25 @@ Details apply to Ubuntu 10.10. - [TLS] basic tls support - [TLS] preshared key support - [TLS] verification of CN + ** Known issues - error stack is only one entry deep - custom allocation scheme is not used in all places + ** Not implemented -- server failover +- [client] server failover - [DTLS] support +- [server] support * Found a bug? -Please report it. This is how we improve the quality of the code. +Please report it. That is how we improve the quality of the code. If possible, please build the library with DEBUG defined (CFLAGS="-g --DDEBUG") and reproduce the problem. With DEBUG defined, lots of +-DDEBUG") and reproduce the problem. With DEBUG defined, lots of asserts are enabled which might give a hint about what's gone wrong. -Running the library under gdb is another good idea. If you experience -a crash, catching it in gdb and providing a backtrace is highly +Running the library under gdb is another good idea. If you experience +a crash, catching the crash in gdb and providing a backtrace is highly valuable for debugging. Contact: mailto:linus+libradsec@nordu.net |