2004-07-22
poll() and EOF
Richard Kettlewell compares how the
poll() system call behaves on seeing EOF on different platforms (see here).
July 2004
2004-07-07
Recent MS patent and viruses
Neil Gaiman writes:
And I see from the Guardian that Microsoft have now patented using the human body as a network. Which, apart from anything, brings a whole new meaning to the concept of viruses.
2004-07-05
MD5 digests in Objective C
I began writing an Objective C wrapper around the OpenSSL EVP message digest routines a while back. A few days ago I saw two requests (on Apple's cocoa-dev and xcode-users mailinglist, respectively) for an MD5 routine in Objective C, so I made my unfinished code available here. The code handles MD5 only, but based on the higher level EVP routines it's very easy to extend (SHA for example). I thought the code could be useful to some, even if I never finish it myself.
The standard disclaimer applies: unfinished code, not heavily tested, might contain catastrophic bugs, etc, etc. Use with care and common sense.
