Patches from fixincludes
Geoff Keating
geoffk@cygnus.com
Sun Jan 23 14:16:00 GMT 2000
> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:06:07 +0100
> From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
> Cc: libc-alpha Mailinglist <libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com>,
> Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org>
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
...
> Sorry, I was wrong. rpc_des.h is in use by glibc. But it seems
> the both _IOWR macros are not necessary. I will check this.
The idea is that the des_crypt.h routines will either use hardware
(through the IOCTL calls), or software (supplied by glibc-crypt).
I don't know of any Linux kernel that actually implements the hardware
interfaces. I expect there is none.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>
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