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SILC Toolkit Reference Manual
SILC Crypto Library
    Introduction to SILC RNG
    SILC RNG Interface
    SILC Cipher API
    SILC PKCS API
    SILC Public Key API
    SILC PKCS #1 API
    SILC Hash Interface
    SILC HMAC Interface
SILC Core Library
    SILC Authentication Interface
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    SILC Status Types
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    SILC ID Interface
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    Packet Engine Interface
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SILC Key Exchange Library
    SILC SKE Interface
    SILC Connection Authentication Interface
SILC VCard Library
    SILC VCard Interface
SILC Math Library
    SILC MP Interface
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SILC Client Library
    Using SILC Client Library Tutorial
    Arguments for command_reply Client Operation
    SilcStatus Error Arguments in command_reply Client Operation
    Arguments for notify Client Operation
    Unicode and UTF-8 Strings in Client Library
    Client Library Interface Reference
    Client Entry Interface Reference
SILC ASN.1 Library
    SILC ASN.1 Interface
    SILC BER interface
SILC HTTP Library
    SILC HTTP Server Interface
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SILC Utility Library
    Basic Types and Definitions
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    List Interface
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    Time Utility Functions
    Logging Interface
    Config File Interface
SILC Key Repository Library
    SILC SKR Interface
SILC Application Utility Library
    SILC Application Utilities
    SILC ID Cache Interface
SILC SFTP Library
    SILC SFTP Interface
    SFTP Filesystems Interface

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silcconfig.html
SILC Config Interface
Header: silcconfig.h

DESCRIPTION

 The SILC Config util library is based on two main objects, SilcConfigFile
 (or File object) and SilcConfigEntity (or Entity).  The File objects are
 structs directly corresponding to the real files in the filesystem, while
 Entities are a little more abstract.

 An Entity is composed by delimited area on a File object (it can take the
 whole File object or just part of it), plus a group of known options.
 In order to parse this file, first you need to create a File object with
 the silc_config_open() function, and then you need to create the Entity
 with the silc_config_init() function.

 Now you can use the newly created Entity to register a group of expected
 known options and sub-blocks, and then you can call the main parsing loop
 with the silc_config_main() function. When silc_config_main() will 
 return, if some error encoured the object file will point to the file 
 that caused this error (this can be different from the originally 
 opened file if it contained `Include' directives).  If no errors 
 encoured then the File objects will still point to the original file.

 While silc_config_main() will take care of destroying Entities before
 returning, you need to take care that the File object you created is freed
 with the silc_config_close() function.

 The SILC Config library won't take care about storing the values contained
 in the config file.  You must take care about it with the callback
 functions.

 The config file syntax is pretty straightforward.  All lines starting
 with `#' will be skipped, while sub-blocks are delimited by braces (see
 the example below).

 Options with argument must have the `=' character between the option
 name and the value.  Simple words and numbers does not require quoting.
 There is a special built-in directive "Include" which allows you to include
 another config file in the point the directive is.  You can also Include
 inside a sub-block body, in this case when parsing the included config file
 it will be assumed that we are within this block, and the included file
 won't be allowed to close his root block.

 Example:

    cipher {
       name = aes-256-cbc;
       module = "aes.sim.so";
       key_length = 32;       # usually the default is just fine
       block_length = 16;
    };
    Include "/etc/silc/hash_funcs.conf";

  • SilcConfigErrno
  • SilcConfigType
  • SilcConfigCallback
  • SilcConfigTable
  • SilcConfigFile
  • SilcConfigEntity
  • SILC_CONFIG_CALLBACK
  • silc_config_open
  • silc_config_close
  • silc_config_init
  • silc_config_strerror
  • silc_config_get_filename
  • silc_config_get_line
  • silc_config_read_line
  • silc_config_read_current_line
  • silc_config_register
  • silc_config_register_table
  • silc_config_main








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