Code review comment for lp:~midauth-pisa-devs/hipl/midauth-firewall

On 02.11.2011 18:44, René Hummen wrote:
> Just one thing: Does anybody have a simple way to convert HIP_HEXDUMP
> output to char values like "\x00\x30\xF9\x16\x00\x88\xFF\xFF\x00".
> Last time I did that manually and realized that this was a bad idea.
> It would be perfect if we could specify the line length of the
> converted output in order to prevent long lines. If we have such a
> script, it's definitely worth adding it to our repository.

It would probably be simpler if HIP_HEXDUMP could read e.g. an
environment variable which specifies the desired output format. Since it
affects the, debug build only it doesn't need to be documented to the
end user and such.