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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: freetds mailing list <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] des_ecb_encrypt naming
  • Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:23:09 -0500 (EST)

I think a better question is why we have any non-static functions not
named with the tds_ prefix. This has been a long standing tradition for
that very reason.

Brian

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Mark J. Lilback wrote:

> Can we rename des_ecb_encrypt to be something else?
>
> Mac OS X includes a function with this name in libcrytpo, and because
> of weak leaking, the FreeTDS version could be called when the
> executable meant to call the system version.
>
> I think there is a way to bypass this with compile flags, but it
> seems best to me to avoid having symbols with the same name as system
> functions.
>
>
>





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