HomeFreeBSD

Make libcrypt thread-safe. Add crypt_r(3).

Description

Make libcrypt thread-safe. Add crypt_r(3).

glibc has a pretty nice function called crypt_r(3), which is nothing
more than crypt(3), but thread-safe. It accomplishes this by introducing
a 'struct crypt_data' structure that contains a buffer that is large
enough to hold the resulting string.

Let's go ahead and also add this function. It would be a shame if a
useful function like this wouldn't be usable in multithreaded apps.
Refactor crypt.c and all of the backends to no longer declare static
arrays, but write their output in a provided buffer.

There is no need to do any buffer length computation here, as we'll just
need to ensure that 'struct crypt_data' is large enough, which it is.
_PASSWORD_LEN is defined to 128 bytes, but in this case I'm picking 256,
as this is going to be part of the actual ABI.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7306

Details

Provenance
edAuthored on Aug 10 2016, 3:16 PM
Parents
rG3a77833e87a6: Fix indentation.
Branches
Unknown
Tags
Unknown