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Re: m_getfld (was Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments fro
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Jon Steinhart |
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Re: m_getfld (was Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email.) |
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Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:34:15 -0800 |
> Jon Steinhart wrote:
> >Fear of m_getfld has kept me from trying this.
>
> It's not that dreadful, is it? I grant you that it sticks its
> hands deep into the guts of the C library in a dreadfully unclean
> manner, but if you're just using it it's not too bad.
>
> Is there any consensus for ripping out the code that knows about libc
> innards in favour of using actual standard interfaces now that copying data
> isn't so expensive? I think that would make that file much easier to
> maintain, and reduce porting issues and avoid potential breakage if the libc
> interface changes (or if the GNU folks find some way to restrict programs to
> the public APIs).
>
> -- PMM
It's not the dreadfulness that's the issue to me. It's that while I think that
I know 90% of what m_getfld does, I'm sure that I'd break something if I tried
to replace it. Unfortunately, none of the voluminous comments in the code say
what it does; they just talk about why it shouldn't be altered. I'd be glad to
take a crack at it if someone could accurately document the routine.
Jon
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Jon Steinhart, 2004/11/23
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Arun Bhalla, 2004/11/23
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Jon Steinhart, 2004/11/23
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Scott Blachowicz, 2004/11/23
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Ken Hornstein, 2004/11/23
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Arun Bhalla, 2004/11/23
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Ken Hornstein, 2004/11/23
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Ralph Corderoy, 2004/11/23
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Scott Blachowicz, 2004/11/23
m_getfld (was Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email.), pmaydell, 2004/11/26
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist: Extracting Attachments from Email., Valdis . Kletnieks, 2004/11/23