* Avoid expensive conversions from char arrays to STL strings.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/serialise.hh b/src/libutil/serialise.hh
index 25398b09d7e6..efd8e2a060eb 100644
--- a/src/libutil/serialise.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/serialise.hh
@@ -114,12 +114,14 @@ struct StringSource : Source
 void writePadding(size_t len, Sink & sink);
 void writeInt(unsigned int n, Sink & sink);
 void writeLongLong(unsigned long long n, Sink & sink);
+void writeString(const unsigned char * buf, size_t len, Sink & sink);
 void writeString(const string & s, Sink & sink);
 void writeStringSet(const StringSet & ss, Sink & sink);
 
 void readPadding(size_t len, Source & source);
 unsigned int readInt(Source & source);
 unsigned long long readLongLong(Source & source);
+size_t readString(unsigned char * buf, size_t max, Source & source);
 string readString(Source & source);
 StringSet readStringSet(Source & source);