FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: DHCP Status

["Waldemar Kornewald" <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx>]

Hi David, nice to hear from you!

David wrote:
> Writing this pseudo-code reminds me of something else.  I figure I
> should convert my functions to using BString sometime.  It would make
> coding easier, but should I?  Where this code will be integrated, will
> it be able to use the BString object?  For my own coding, can I link to
> a library containing the BString object without having to go through all
> the trouble of downloading and compiling lots of Haiku?

We have BMallocIO which automatically manages memory for you. It should be 
better-suited for binary data than BString (I don't know if you planned to 
write binary data to the buffer).


Axel wrote:
> Yes, we have the driver_settings implementation; it can be used by 
> config files easily.
> It will be in our libroot.so (maybe slightly changed), so you can use 
> it now by directly linking driver_settings.o into your executable (or 
> compile the source with yours - there are a lot of examples in the 
> repository how you would do this with Jam, especially the test section 
> is full with these, there is even a test for that API as well).

And you might want to look at my settings_tools.cpp/h in the libkernelppp 
source (network/ppp/shared). It contains many useful functions for handling 
driver_parameter structures, but do not use functions that make changes to the 
driver_settings/parameter structure(s). Those should only be used with the 
structures returned by dup_driver_settings() and new_driver_xxx().

Bye,
Waldemar