char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt)
{
- /* Note: update this size when we add more hash types */
+ /* This buffer is sufficiently large for all
+ * currently-supported hash types. It needs to be updated if
+ * longer hashes are added. The cast to struct crypt_data * is
+ * purely to meet the public API requirements of the crypt_r
+ * function; the implementation of crypt_r uses the object
+ * purely as a char buffer. */
static char buf[128];
return __crypt_r(key, salt, (struct crypt_data *)buf);
}