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| author | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2002-12-06 17:14:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> | 2002-12-06 17:14:22 +0000 |
| commit | b0d4b6150fac1f17c61058a19e86ccedc2ff87c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ec51caa2caf3ac4b876240d7e45c80863a483fe /doc/tex | |
| parent | 84db053194b3e76290e75e6c4a268b2143774687 (diff) | |
| download | gnutls-b0d4b6150fac1f17c61058a19e86ccedc2ff87c2.tar.gz | |
Added the new functions gnutls_get_malloc_function(), gnutls_get_free_function(). Also changed the way callback functions must allocate data. They now need to use these functions, instead of just calling malloc().
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/tex')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tex/Makefile.am | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tex/callbacks.tex | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tex/library.tex | 2 |
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tex/Makefile.am b/doc/tex/Makefile.am index 4cf7322bee..8023be5b54 100644 --- a/doc/tex/Makefile.am +++ b/doc/tex/Makefile.am @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ TEX_OBJECTS = gnutls.tex ../../lib/gnutls-api.tex fdl.tex \ appendix.tex x509cert.xml.tex pgpcert.xml.tex \ programs.tex library.tex certificate.tex record_weaknesses.tex \ tlsintro.tex compression.tex $(EXAMPLE_OBJECTS) \ - tls_extensions.tex srp.tex preparation.tex + tls_extensions.tex srp.tex preparation.tex callbacks.tex gnutls.html: $(TEX_OBJECTS) -latex2html gnutls.tex -no_navigation -split 0 \ diff --git a/doc/tex/callbacks.tex b/doc/tex/callbacks.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..59f3fff868 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tex/callbacks.tex @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +\section{Callback functions} +\index{Callback functions} + +There are several cases where \gnutls{} may need some out of band input from +your program. This is now implemented using some callback functions, +which your program is expected to register. + +An example of this type of functions are the push and pull callbacks +which are used to specify the functions that will retrieve and send +data to the transport layer. +\begin{itemize} +\item \printfunc{gnutls_transport_set_push_function}{gnutls\_transport\_set\_push\_function} +\item \printfunc{gnutls_transport_set_pull_function}{gnutls\_transport\_set\_pull\_function} +\end{itemize} + +Other callback functions such as the one set by +\printfunc{gnutls_srp_set_server_credentials_function}{gnutls\_srp\_set\_server\_credentials\_function}, +may require more complicated input, including data to be allocated. +These callbacks should use the following function to get a malloc() +and a free() like functions, to allocate data. +\begin{itemize} +\item \printfunc{gnutls_global_get_malloc_function}{gnutls\_global\_get\_malloc\_function} +\item \printfunc{gnutls_global_get_free_function}{gnutls\_global\_get\_free\_function} +\end{itemize} diff --git a/doc/tex/library.tex b/doc/tex/library.tex index 62cbdc4596..5ef9b58f29 100644 --- a/doc/tex/library.tex +++ b/doc/tex/library.tex @@ -107,3 +107,5 @@ with the previous one. \input{errors} \input{memory} + +\input{callbacks} |