[Botan-devel] Re: [Monotone-devel] oprofile data for mtn 0.37.

[Jack Lloyd]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:19:50PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Jack Lloyd <lloyd at randombit.net> wrote:
> >
> >  Pipe actually keeps each message around forever (all storage is
> >  reclaimed once a) all output has been read out b) the message in
> >  question is not currently being processed). You can read out a out of
> >  order / interleaved with reading others / whatever.
> 
> Additional question: how does that interact with things like
> PKCS8::load_key() that take
> a pipe, with a message pending, as an argument?  (Hm, arguably I
> oughta be using DataSource_Stream for those...)

I feel like I am missing the point of your question. The message in
the Pipe containing the key will be read out and the space
reclaimed...

-Jack