Adding lib/wire.c

[Alex Kiernan]

Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> Alex Kiernan <alexk at demon.net> writes:
> 
> > With all the hacking on nnrpd I've been doing, I've become more & more
> > aware of the amount of duplication we have in the manipulation of
> > articles.
> 
> > I've started pulling some of the wire format article manipulation into
> > lib/wire.c (but right now all there is a wire_findbody[1])
> 
> > Good idea/bad idea?
> 
> > [1] the only reason I implemented this one was it stuck out at the top
> > of a profiling session as the number one user of CPU cycles
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me.  The more stuff that we pull out into lib
> the better.
> 

OK, I'll commit it later today.

> BTW, while we're on that topic, would you mind if I pulled syspagesize out
> of lib/mmap.c and instead just wrote a replacement for getpagesize for
> systems that don't have it and then modified INN to just use getpagesize
> everywhere?  It looks like there are uses in the storage handlers that
> this would simplify as well.
> 

Please feel free! I started adding it as it was another of those where
we had the same code scattered everywhere.

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc