Re: prompt_hook

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:40:05AM -0500, will guaraldi wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Chris Heilman wrote:
> >
> > I've used the net_read_filter for some pre-processing stuff.  I needed
> > to get at it before anything else, and something (I don't remember
> > exactly, maybe it was prompt detection) always happened first so I
> > couldn't use priorities.  Is there another/better way that I should do
> > this?  Why remove the hook?  Is there a performance hit for having a
> > hook if nothing registers with it?
> 
> See if you can figure out what the issue was and let me know and we can
> see if it's possible to work around it, or if I should re-implement the
> net_filter_hook.  (I don't think it'd be that hard to re-implement.)
> 
> I was thinking of removing the net filters because they were originally
> for implementing things like MCCP and SSL on the network layer in a module
> and I don't think we're going down that track anymore.

I'm not remembering what the issue is, but it still seems strange to
remove existing functionality from the client.  I refuse to believe that
calling an empty hook is hurting performance.

How would you implement something like the Portal MIP, or MXP?

-Chris
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Chris Heilman             http://wreck.org           [email protected]
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