Getting kerberos to use fds > 256

[Cesar Garcia]

You might want to initialize the context when you application starts
up and reuse the same context. This would be more efficient as well.

>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Burke <craznar at hotmail.com> writes:

Christopher> OK I am very clear now on why Kerberos is failing here ... I am calling from 
Christopher> inside another application (same process).

Christopher> I have no control over the parent application and it creates lots (up to 
Christopher> 6000) of simulateous open files and associated file descriptors.

Christopher> The problem is - once it goes past 256 open files/fds kerberos no longer 
Christopher> works as it cannot use a fd above 256.

Christopher> It gives me the EMFILE (24) from init_context.

Christopher> So how do I convince the kerberos library to use the fds above 256 ?

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