Fixed already. And much better and more mature (IMHO) than my proposal.

See http://sequoia.continuent.org/HomePage
and http://carob.continuent.org/HomePage/ (for C/C++)

Now, what do you think? Can someone of you make this work between
Firebird and a Win32/Linux (ie. fbclient.dll/so) client? (A Java/Perl
client is straightforward).

hth,

m. th.