Pike-devel April 2026

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Pike Meet-up 2024-Q2
by Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 18 May '26

18 May '26

Hi. At Pike Conference 2017 it was decided that we ought to hold a more informal meeting in Linköping ~ once every quarter. As the 6 month mark from the latest conference is coming up soon, it seems time to announce the second such meeting for 2024: Pike Meet-up 2024-Q2 Date: 2024-05-11 (Sat) Time: 10:00 - afternoon/evening Place: Roxen IS AB Storgatan 46 Linköping Welcome! /grubba

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Pike 9.0.11 (beta 3) released.
by Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 10 May '26

10 May '26

The above is now available for download from the Pike site. Please test and enjoy. /grubba

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Re: PKCS#8 private key format
by Chris Angelico 28 Apr '26

28 Apr '26

On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 06:54, Henrik Grubbström (Lysator) @ Pike (-) developers forum <10353(a)lyskom.lysator.liu.se> wrote: > > What would be the consequences of adding support for the PKCS#8 type > > to these two convenience functions? This would be a simple change in > > each of two places - see branch rosuav/pkcs8-key-parsing - but there > > may be other consequences that I'm not aware of. > > Looks good, merged in Pike 9.0 and later. > Oh sweet! Thanks. ChrisA

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PKCS#8 private key format
by Chris Angelico 28 Apr '26

28 Apr '26

Using LetsEncrypt's certbot will by default generate a private key in PKCS#8 format, not the PKCS#1 "Traditional" format. This CAN be used with Pike, but the most obvious way to parse certificates and keys does not work with this. Example: object pem = Standards.PEM.Messages(Stdio.read_file("privkey.pem") + Stdio.read_file("fullchain.pem")); pem->get_private_keys(); //Empty array, no PK found string pk = pem->get_fragments((<"PRIVATE KEY">))[0]->body; //This does return a valid key though object ctx = SSL.Context(); //ctx->add_cert(pk, pem->get_certificates()); //Fails - unable to parse key ctx->add_cert(Standards.PKCS.parse_private_key(pk), pem->get_certificates()); //Succeeds! What would be the consequences of adding support for the PKCS#8 type to these two convenience functions? This would be a simple change in each of two places - see branch rosuav/pkcs8-key-parsing - but there may be other consequences that I'm not aware of. Anyone with more SSL knowledge than me able to weigh in? ChrisA

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pike_frame->fun = FUNCTION_BUILTIN
by Arne Goedeke 16 Apr '26

16 Apr '26

In INIT, EXIT and some gc callbacks the fun in Pike_fp is set to FUNCTION_BUILTIN. there are some places in the code (e.g. ADT.List()->_get_iterator) where ->fun is used in INHERIT_FROM_INT et al, which segfaults (except with PIKE_DEBUG). I am not sure where to fix this. Should the *_FROM_INT macros check for FUNCTION_BUILTIN or is this better to be handled in the individual INIT/EXIT methods ? does anyone object to making ADT.Stack and ADT.Queue inherit ADT.List? arne

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managing comport settings in linux
by Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

Not a good idea; the design philosophy of Pike is that Pike-level code should never be able to cause memory corruption at C-level. With ioctls there's no way to know what data a specific ioctl wants without reading the documentation for that specific ioctl for that specific OS. ioctls and fcntls are a way for device handlers to hook in APIs that aren't standard across all filedescriptors. / Henrik Grubbström (Lysator) Previous text: >2004-08-17 13:32: >Subject: managing comport settings in linux >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >What would be nice, is a way to define ioctl methods in >Pike. Perhaps something like > >object i = Stdio.IOCTL(4242 /* request_id */ ); >i->add_int_parameter(); >i->add_string_parameter(); >i->set_return_type(STRING); > >string ret = i(fd, 1, "somestring"); > > >That ought to be possible, or..? > > / Marcus Agehall (PacketFront) >

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