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Re: Patches from fixincludes


> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:06:07 +0100
> From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
> Cc: libc-alpha Mailinglist <libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com>,
>         Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org>
> 
> On Sat, Jan 22, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
...
> Sorry, I was wrong. rpc_des.h is in use by glibc. But it seems
> the both _IOWR macros are not necessary. I will check this.

The idea is that the des_crypt.h routines will either use hardware
(through the IOCTL calls), or software (supplied by glibc-crypt).

I don't know of any Linux kernel that actually implements the hardware
interfaces.  I expect there is none.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

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