comment potentially-confusing use of struct crypt_data type

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Rich Felker 2013-04-20 14:07:01 -04:00
parent 5d37b79793
commit 71ae0c724d
2 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ char *__crypt_r(const char *, const char *, struct crypt_data *);
char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt)
{
/* Note: update this size when we add more hash types */
/* This buffer is sufficiently large for all
* currently-supported hash types. It needs to be updated if
* longer hashes are added. The cast to struct crypt_data * is
* purely to meet the public API requirements of the crypt_r
* function; the implementation of crypt_r uses the object
* purely as a char buffer. */
static char buf[128];
return __crypt_r(key, salt, (struct crypt_data *)buf);
}

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@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ char *__crypt_sha512(const char *, const char *, char *);
char *__crypt_r(const char *key, const char *salt, struct crypt_data *data)
{
/* Per the crypt_r API, the caller has provided a pointer to
* struct crypt_data; however, this implementation does not
* use the structure to store any internal state, and treats
* it purely as a char buffer for storing the result. */
char *output = (char *)data;
if (salt[0] == '$' && salt[1] && salt[2]) {
if (salt[1] == '1' && salt[2] == '$')