[Openswan dev] Small optimisation for lots of interfaces

[David McCullough]

Jivin Paul Wouters lays it down ...
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, David McCullough wrote:
> 
> > > But has not been updated to completely replace the scripts, though we
> > > want to get rid of the scripts.
> >
> > Ok, we have a 'C' based tool that we originally wrote to run on our
> > small footprint devices as we could accomodate a full shell+tools.
> >
> > It's and older freeswan implementation of whatthe shell scripts do,
> > and I mean,  it does what the shell scripts do only in 'C'.  There
> > are a couple of small optimisations in there to help,  but it is
> > effectively just a 'C' pattern/text parser.
> 
> Is this different from programs/starter ?

Yes,  written from scratch to do what the scripts do without needing
sed/awk/bash/...

> > So if a 'C' implementation of the scripts is something  that might be
> > cosidered an improvement,  we would definately be happy to put it out
> > there.  It needs updating to the current openswan ifmond.conf options
> > though.  It's not beautiful,  but it is self contained.
> 
> It has been a long term goal for us to remove all the scripts. They are
> just too problematic for use on many embedded systems. But we have not
> had the resources to do so. We would be very interested in integrating
> a C based replacement.

I'll see if I can package up something for you guys to look at initially
to see if it's acceptable,

Cheers,
Davidm

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