[fprint] conversin of fprint data to store in database

[Daniel Drake]

Jason Gerfen wrote:
> Enroll stores the written file in a binary field within the MySQL db.
> Upon authentication simply query the binary field within the MySQL db to 
> do comparisons which would then write a local copy of the enrolled 
> fingerprint file?
> 
> I think that would be a better solution then trying to stream the 
> fp_print_data_from_data() to a db field.

At some level, there has to be some code that streams binary data into a 
database. This is unavoidable.

However, this could be inside fprint hence fprint could export a 
higher-level database interface, yes. It does not at the moment. The 
right place to do this is fprintd, patches accepted.

Daniel