Re: non-blocking v3 authentication?

Dave Shield wrote:
> On 17/10/2007, Rob Bloodgood <[email protected]> wrote:
>> However, if something entered the "official" module's source, I could
>> certainly take advantage of it when it was available.  Specifically, I
>> would like to be able to defer the probing in the constructor, then
>> probe asynchronously, even if I have to be extra careful not to issue
>> any queries until the probe is complete.
> 
> Well, if you manage to come up with code to handle this, do feel free
> to submit it to the project for inclusion in the main source tree.
> You've probably got more of a vested interest in providing this
> functionality than anybody else :-)

I've had my initial look at the code, and right at the core of 
snmpv3_engineID_probe() is a call to snmp_sess_synch_response().  Which 
suggests to me I'd have to write an async version of 
snmpv3_engine_ID_probe.  I might just do that.


>> And while I'm at it, A question for somebody who works on the Perl API:
>> Why is it so hard to get at the specific filehandle associated with a
>> given session object?  I finally realized I could take 'before' and
>> 'after' snapshots of the list of active filehandles when calling the
>> constructor... but a direct API call (with whitespace, I think 8 lines
>> of C) would have made more sense.
> 
>    Well write one, dear Rob, dear Rob, dear Rob
>    Well write one, dear Rob, dear Rob, my dear
> 
> Same comment applied - if you come up with code that you think
> could usefully be included in the project, simply submit it to the
> project 'patches' tracker.
>    It may take us a while to get round to looking as such submissions,
> but we *do* welcome contributions, and most of them will tend to be
> included in the official sources  (eventually).

OK, I'll get to it when I get a coupla tuits. :)

L8r,
Rob

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