crypt and POSIX

Joel Sherrill joel at rtems.org
Thu Aug 13 12:49:16 UTC 2020


On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:56 PM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> On 13/08/2020 00:41, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I was poking at updating the Compliance Spreadsheet to track what
> > Eshan has been doing this summer. POSIX requires crypt with crypt_r
> > being a GNU extension.
> >
> > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/crypt.html
> >
> > I don't see the basic POSIX method in our libcrypt.
> >
> > Did I miss something?
>
> It is not available. We also don't offer the Openwall extensions.
>

Why was crypt() removed? It is in the FreeBSD version at the bottom of the
file.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/lib/libcrypt/crypt.c

The Openwall extensions are another matter completely.

--joel
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