[PATCH] Added p11_kit_module_get_filename()

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Jul 10 06:57:13 PDT 2015


On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 15:49 +0200, Stef Walter wrote:
> On 10.07.2015 14:43, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> > I realized that once we load the modules with p11-kit there is no way
> > back. That is, the software using p11-kit cannot guess which soname is
> > used for operations. That doesn't matter normally, but that information
> > is useful to figure for use in non-p11-kit compliant applications.
> > 
> > For example p11tool could list the actual module name of a token to use
> > with ssh (a non-p11-kit enabled app).
> > 
> > The attached patch adds p11_kit_module_get_filename() to address that.
> 
> Hmmm callers can use p11_kit_config_option(module, "module") to do this
> today.
> 
> http://p11-glue.freedesktop.org/doc/p11-kit/p11-kit-Modules.html#p11-kit-config-option
> 
> But the patch may still make sense as a solid API, however in this case
> we probably want to return the expanded file name ... the filename is
> currently expanded in: load_module_from_file_inlock() ... and we should
> return that expanded name instead.

Nice. Got a patch to make NSS libsoftokn return a list, from its 'what
extra modules should we load' API?

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dwmw2
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