We must switch to OpenSSL 3.x, and getting lib/hcrypto to provide
OpenSSL 3.x APIs is too large an undertaking. Plus the hcrypto backend
is not safe, not secure (probably has timing leaks galore), and no one
has the resources to make it a world-class crypto library, so it just
has to go.
Noticed missing target directory dependency as a build failure in
`make --shuffle` mode (added in https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?62100):
Making all in doc
make[1]: Entering directory '/build/heimdal/doc'
MAKEINFO hx509.info
hx509.texi:15: @include: could not find vars.texi
hx509.texi:31: warning: undefined flag: PACKAGE_VERSION
hx509.texi:186: warning: undefined flag: PACKAGE_VERSION
make[1]: *** [Makefile:622: hx509.info] Error 1 shuffle=1656683556
The change moves vars.texi to BUILT_SOURCES to guarantee it's
presence when .info files start the build.
[Code reviewed by Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha@kth.se>]
Added heim_db_*() entry points for dealing with databases, and
make krb5_aname_to_localname() use it.
The following enhancements to libheimbase are included:
- Add heim_data_t and heim_string_t "reference" variants to
avoid memory copies of potentially large data/strings.
See heim_data_ref_create() and heim_string_ref_create().
- Added enhancements to heim_array_t to allow their use for
queues and stacks, and to improve performance. See
heim_array_insert_value().
- Added XPath-like accessors for heim_object_t. See
heim_path_get(), heim_path_copy(), heim_path_create(), and
heim_path_delete(). These are used extensively in the DB
framework's generic composition of ACID support and in the
test_base program
- Made libheimbase more consistent with Core Foundation naming
conventions. See heim_{dict, array}_{get, copy}_value() and
heim_path_{get, copy}().
- Added functionality to and fixed bugs in base/json.c:
- heim_serialize();
- depth limit for JSON parsing (for DoS protection);
- pretty-printing;
- JSON compliance (see below);
- flag options for parsing and serializing; these are needed
because of impedance mismatches between heim_object_t and
JSON (e.g., heim_dict_t allows non-string keys, but JSON
does not; heimbase supports binary data, while JSON does
not).
- Added heim_error_enomem().
- Enhanced the test_base program to test new functionality and
to use heim_path*() to better test JSON encoding. This
includes some fuzz testing of JSON parsing, and running the
test under valgrind.
- Started to add doxygen documentation for libheimbase (but doc
build for libheimbase is still incomplete).
Note that there's still some incomplete JSON support:
- JSON string quoting is not fully implemented;
- libheimbase lacks support for real numbers, while JSON has
it -- otherwise libheimbase is a superset of JSON,
specifically in that any heim_object_t can be a key for an
associative array.
The following DB backends are supported natively:
- "sorted-text", a binary search of sorted (in C locale), flat
text files;
- "json", a backend that stores DB contents serialized as JSON
(this is intended for configuration-like contents).
The DB framework supports:
- multiple key/value tables per-DB
- ACID transactions
The DB framework also natively implements ACID transactions for
any DB backends that a) do not provide transactions natively, b)
do provide lock/unlock/sync methods (even on Windows). This
includes autocommit of DB updates outside transactions.
Future DB enhancements may include:
- add backends for various DB types (BDB, CDB, MDB, ...);
- make libhdb use heim_db_t;
- add a command-line tool for interfacing to databases via
libheimbase (e.g., to get/set/delete values, create/copy/
backup DBs, inspect history, check integrity);
- framework-level transaction logging (with redo and undo
logging), for generic incremental replication;
- framework-level DB integrity checking.
We could store a MAC of the XOR of a hash function applied to
{key, value} for every entry in the DB, then use this to check
DB integrity incrementally during incremental replication, as
well as for the whole DB.
