On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 19:11:10 +0100, Niels M�ller wrote:
> As far as general suggestions go: Please tell me early what you want to
> work on.
To be honest, I don't know yet. It's been quite a while since I did some
real C coding (I've mostly done package maintainance the last years).
> I also think it's a good idea to send me patches quite early, so that we
> don't get too much out of sync.
OK.
> Other mostly orthogonal sub-projects are: Configuration (including reading
> appropriate config files and better command line options), better user
> authentication methods than passwords,
I'd suggest using PAM (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/) for that,
and have simple password code as a fallback for systems that lack PAM.
> a decent source of random bits (using /dev/random if available, with a
> reasonably good fallback), ...
There's a lot in GPG which we can reuse.
> Currently I'm working on the gc and object-system. Unfortunately, this
> means some changes to many parts of lsh. But it has to be done, and the
> sooner the better.
Actually, the presence of gc was something I was a bit surprised about. I'm
not exactly an expert on memory management issues, but wouldn't it make more
sense to use either an existing garbage collection library, or a debugging
tool to track leaks
(http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/zorn/public_html/MallocDebug.html
http://www.fsf.org/software/checker/checker.html or
http://iseran.ira.uka.de/~armin/ccmalloc/)?
> > Perhaps you can set up a CVS server for lsh?
>
> There are a few options here:
Anonymous read-only CVS access is very important, I think.
> I'm not very familiar with the pserver-feature of cvs, but my impression
> is that it is not very secure.
I'm not so sure about that. Several large projects like GNOME and mozilla
use it succesfully. Perhaps you can ask in comp.software.config-mgmt about
this?
Ray
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