Getting kerberos to use fds > 256

Christopher Burke craznar at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 11 20:28:05 EST 2002


tlyu at mit.edu (Tom Yu) wrote in news:ldveljr33pw.fsf at saint-elmos-
fire.mit.edu:

>>> You might want to initialize the context when you application
>>> starts up and reuse the same context. This would be more efficient
>>> as well.
> 
> This may be a bad idea in a multi-threaded application.

Multi threaded - yes, but all my kerberos calls are made within a single 
mutex protected block....

> 
> craznar> THanks again ... kerberos no longer seems to be the limiting
> craznar> factor - now I am getting error 22 returned after alot
> craznar> heavier load.
> 
> This _may_ be because libkrb5 is not thread-safe... this is a
> multi-threaded application, right?  It may be best to use a big lock
> around all calls into libkrb5.

Already done ...

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