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In an ideal world, Assuan is irrelevant. Assuan's primary use is to allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server. Using Assuan, this is accomplished by forking a subprocess and communicating with it via, for example, a pipe or unix domain socket. This method is neither elegant nor efficient especially when there is a lot of data spread across several transactions: not only is there a penalty for an increased number of context switches, but also a significant amount of data is MEMCPYed from the client to a file descriptor and from the file descriptor to the server.

Homepage:

https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/libassuan/index.en.html

License:

GPL-3 LGPL-2.1

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Description

• In an ideal world, Assuan is irrelevant. Assuan's primary use is to allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server. Using Assuan, this is accomplished by forking a subprocess and communicating with it via, for example, a pipe or unix domain socket. This method is neither elegant nor efficient especially when there is a lot of data spread across several transactions: not only is there a penalty for an increased number of context switches, but also a significant amount of data is MEMCPYed from the client to a file descriptor and from the file descriptor to the server.

Maintainers

• Gentoo Base System (base-system@gentoo.org) - Type: project

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>base-system@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Gentoo Base System</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
In an ideal world, Assuan is irrelevant.  Assuan's primary use is to
allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server.  Using Assuan,
this is accomplished by forking a subprocess and communicating with it
via, for example, a pipe or unix domain socket.  This method is neither
elegant nor efficient especially when there is a lot of data spread
across several transactions: not only is there a penalty for an
increased number of context switches, but also a significant amount of
data is MEMCPYed from the client to a file descriptor and from the file
descriptor to the server.
	</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 3.0.1-r1. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.
• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 3.0.0-r1. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.
• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 2.5.7. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.

Files

• libassuan-3.0.0-fix-typo.patch

Manifest