First NTS code
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Jan 28 13:59:32 UTC 2019
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
>
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> >> Do we want to store cookies and passwords and such in a fixed max-size
> array
> >> or as heap allocated blobs? In any case, we need to remember the lengths.
>
> > Depends - if they're textual we can assume a '\0' sentinel. I'd prefer to do
> > that if possible, it would minimize the amount of data items to manage and
> > thus potential defects.
>
> They are mostly binary blobs: cookies, keys, nonces, ...
> It might be worth packaging blob and length into a struct.
OK. That's inside-NTS work - do as you like there. I need to concentrate
elsewhere for a bit.
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