[lsb-discuss] [Fwd: NSS public functions]
Jeff Licquia
jeff at licquia.org
Mon Aug 11 14:09:21 PDT 2008
Howard Chu wrote:
> In fact it's impossible to write an NSS app without also making numerous
> direct calls to NSPR. From this same page:
If that's the case, then yes, we'd need NSPR. Perhaps someone from the
NSS project can comment.
> Note - apps that use NSS generally cannot use OS-native calls for these
> extremely standard functions (including I/O and memory management).
> Instead they must use NSPR calls. This extra abstraction layer offers no
> benefit on Linux, it just increases overhead and application footprint.
> I believe NSS/NSPR are a poor choice upon which to build in the Linux
> environment. The net result would be like running a POSIX emulation
> machine on top of Linux - totally redundant, wasteful, and inefficient.
This may be. But our alternative to NSS would be OpenSSL, which has far
more difficult problems to solve.
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