| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>crypto@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Crypto</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription> |
| 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. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |
