[gnutls-dev] Work in progress: GnuTLS 2.2 release notes on API changes

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sat Nov 17 15:33:21 CET 2007


On Thursday 15 November 2007, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> I think it would be better if we had a function like:
>
>   int gnutls_set_priority (gnutls_session_t session,
>                            const char *priority);

I just remembered that there was a reason this priority function was kept 
simple from the begging (integers only). This function is called per session, 
thus having a parsing routing like this would add some overhead... This could 
be insignificant compared to RSA/DH etc, but still in a busy server it might 
become significant.

What I had thought then was to make this parsing routine output the result
in a gnutls_priority_st structure and then associate this struction with every 
session. If found that solution complex then...


regards,
Nikos



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