Re: Squid NTLM authentication

On Sat, Apr 15, 2000, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> > You mentioned in an email to squid-dev that you want to kill pump.c .
> > It wouldn't be that hard to convert over to the non-copy version
> > of storeClientCopy(), without causing you too much grief.
>
> It's already killed by the design I had in that patch I meant to talk
> about.. It is quite copy intensive (read, copy, possibly move to make
> space in the read buffer, write) and there probably are better methods,
> but I don't give this a high priority as it is only used for request
> entities (PUT/POST), not replies.

Yup. Well, its just one more improvement. :)

> > I'm working on some documentation of the Adrianified stoage manager
> > which I'll be committing as soon as I get the hang of docbook. :)
>
> Good.
>
> Hmm.. I have been thinking about how we could make the programmers guide
> a more natural part of the development. One idea I have is to split the
> guide source up and put it in the relevant source files instead of
> separately, and have a small pre-processor which collects the fragments
> together and builds the book from it. This should make it easier to
> remember to write/update the documentation while hacking as it gets more
> visible to the "hacker". Any comments?

This is a problem facing all coders on distributed projects everywhere.
I like this idea but to help build the programmers guide, not build
the programmers guide. After I merge up my tree, I'll throw in
a whole lot more comments on what the store routines do.

Adrian
Received on Sat Apr 15 2000 - 03:46:36 MDT