[IRCServices Coding] svcs5 - request

[v13 at priest.com]

 If you realy want other people to write useful modules, then it should be 
possible for each module to extend the NickServ and ChanServ (and even the 
others) databases. I suppose that having a:

struct ext_list {
	struct ext_list	*prev, *next;
	long		id;
	size_t		size;
	void		*buf;
};

that will form a list for each nickname/channel whould be what we need. It 
should be easy to save it using the existing database format.
Also by providing some functions like:

struct ext_list *get_extlist_memb(struct ext_list *head, long id);

void update_extlist_memb(struct ext_list **head, long id, size_t size,
			void *buf);

/* and one for delete */

it should be very easy to handle it.

Each module will only need to have a fixed unique integer to use and it will 
need only one field to be added to struct NickInfo etc.. like:

struct NickInfo {
	...
	struct ext_list	*head;
};

and after that..

/**********************************************/

#define MY_ID	0x1234

	struct NickInfo	*ni;
	struct ext_list	*el;

	...code...

	update_extlist_memb( &(ni->head), MY_ID, 7, "RANDOM" );

	...code...

	el=get_extlist_memb(ni->head, MY_ID);

	/* and there we have el==NULL or el->buf == "RANDOM" */

/**********************************************/

Something like this whould *REALY* help to add functionality without changing 
existing code, without creating another database and will be compatible to 
future versions.

TIA
<<V13>>