[sparks-discuss] libldap:ber_printf() 'O' in format string [PSARC/2008/607 FastTrack timeout 10/01/2008]

[Wyllys Ingersoll]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
>> The diffmarked manpage in the case materials explained it a bit better:
>>     
>
> For some reason said file does not appear on the opensolaris.org page
> for this case.  Can someone tell me how to make it appear there?
>
> In the meantime I've attached it to this post.
>
> Nico
>   


Why are these functions part of libldap and not in their own library ?  
They standalone very nicely
and are useful to other projects that have nothing to do with LDAP.    
KMF needed BER/DER
functions but with some additional format conversions that were not 
supported, so we ended up
making a project-private copy and modifying them to suit our needs.  If 
they had already been
part of a standalone library, we would have proposed changes to that 
library and kept it public.

So, has anyone considered factoring the ber_* functions out of libldap 
and created a new lib dedicated
to parsing and formatting ASN.1?

-Wyllys