Getting kerberos to use fds > 256
Cesar Garcia
Cesar.Garcia at morganstanley.com
Mon Feb 11 19:14:31 EST 2002
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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