Re: [naviserver-devel] [naviserver-commits] naviserver ChangeLog, 1.350, 1.351 configure.in, 1.27, 1.28

[Stephen Deasey]

On 3/18/06, Vlad Seryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Update of /cvsroot/naviserver/naviserver
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv6222

Modified Files:
        ChangeLog configure.in
Log Message:
For Linux systems use native crypt which supports MD5 digests, increase 
encryption buffer

 ...

+ # Use native crypt if possible
+ case "`uname`" in
+   Linux)
+      LIBS="-lcrypt $LIBS"
+   ;;
+ esac
+

This seems kind of arbitrary.  What's so special about Linux?

Is crypt() thread-safe?  It looks like it passes back a pointer to a
static buffer, whereas the naviserver version writes it's result to
the buffer you provide.