Small and Fast (was: Re: Add InitializeSecurityContext for schannel)

[Vijay Kiran Kamuju]

Hi all,

I copied it from the negotiate.c
In other places like ntlm.c, its like that only.
Im not the one who actually designed secur32 ;) :P
If i did anything worng please correct me.
bye,
Vijay

On 2/15/06, Marcus Meissner <marcus(a)jet.franken.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:22:09PM +0100, Detlef Riekenberg wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 14.02.2006, 17:34 +0530 schrieb Vijay Kiran Kamuju:
> > > Add InitializeSecurityContext for schannel in secur32.dll
> >
> > +static SECURITY_STATUS SEC_ENTRY schan_InitializeSecurityContextW(
> > + PCredHandle phCredential, PCtxtHandle phContext, SEC_WCHAR
> > *pszTargetName,
> > + ULONG fContextReq, ULONG Reserved1, ULONG TargetDataRep,
> > + PSecBufferDesc pInput,ULONG Reserved2, PCtxtHandle phNewContext,
> > + PSecBufferDesc pOutput, ULONG *pfContextAttr, PTimeStamp ptsExpiry)
> > +{
> >
> > I Remembered a statement from fefe (diet-libc => www.fefe.de) about
> > "Writing Small and Fast Software":
> >
> > It is still clear, what each Argument does, when you remove the
> > Variable-Names from the Declaration?
> > - Yes: Efficient Design.
> > - No:  Your Interface is to generic ==  bloated
> >
> > static SECURITY_STATUS SEC_ENTRY schan_InitializeSecurityContextW(
> >  PCredHandle, PCtxtHandle, SEC_WCHAR *, ULONG, ULONG, ULONG,
> >  PSecBufferDesc, ULONG, PCtxtHandle, PSecBufferDesc, ULONG, PTimeStamp)
> > {
> >
> > We all should thank the People who did such a Design :-)
>
> However, this only works in newer C compilers as far as I know... ;)
>
> Ciao, Marcus

Small and Fast (was: Re: Add InitializeSecurityContext for schannel)

[Kai Blin]

* Vijay Kiran Kamuju <infyquest(a)gmail.com> [15/02/06, 09:06:42]:
> Hi all,
>
> I copied it from the negotiate.c
> In other places like ntlm.c, its like that only.
> Im not the one who actually designed secur32 ;) :P
> If i did anything worng please correct me.

I think this was more like a general rant against the SSPI API.
That is the way InitializeSecurityContext has to be called.

Cheers,
Kai

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Small and Fast (was: Re: Add InitializeSecurityContext for schannel)

[Detlef Riekenberg]

Hi all
> * Vijay Kiran Kamuju <infyquest(a)gmail.com> [15/02/06, 09:06:42]:
> > Im not the one who actually designed secur32 ;) :P

I know.
> > If i did anything worng please correct me.
> > nothing wrong. You do a great job for wine, as all Developer do.
> I think this was more like a general rant against the SSPI API.

Yep.

The better Design from spoolss.dll:
LPWSTR AllocSplStr(LPCWSTR);

Easy to understand, even without Parameter-Names.


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