From 4f2d7949f03e1c198bc888f2d05f421d35c57e21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: V3n3RiX Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 18:53:29 +0100 Subject: reinit the tree, so we can have metadata --- dev-libs/libassuan/metadata.xml | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 dev-libs/libassuan/metadata.xml (limited to 'dev-libs/libassuan/metadata.xml') diff --git a/dev-libs/libassuan/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libassuan/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..fe0789259056 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-libs/libassuan/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ + + + + + crypto@gentoo.org + Crypto + + +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. + + -- cgit v1.2.3