Re: [patch 1/4] Add routine for generating an ID for kernel pointer

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sat Dec 31 2011 - 02:58:11 EST


On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:55:29PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
...
>
> Don't hexdump the key, just return pure binary and allow the user to
> encode it if they care (EG: files in "proc" would hexdump, but a
> syscall would not). Also, I somehow suspect there is a preexisting
> function to do this for a byte array.
>

Thanks a *lot* for comments, Kyle! I'll think about it and try to make
some draft prototype.

Cyrill
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