KRB5_REALM_CANT_RESOLVE errors ?
Christopher Burke
craznar at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 28 20:20:21 EST 2002
kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Ken Hornstein) wrote in news:200203281423.g2SENBY21585
@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil:
>>No - ALL kerberos stuff is housed within the mutex, one at a time through
>>the funnel.
>
> I think Ken's point was that if elsewhere in your program you call
> gethostbyname() (or perhaps a function that calls gethostbyname()) _not_
> in the Kerberos routines, then the gethostbyname() in the Kerberos library
> could fail since gethostbyname() isn't thread-safe. As you describe it,
> the mutex just blocks other calls to the Kerberos library, right? It
> doesn't completely stop other threads.
Mmm... getting through my thick skull slowly.....
Its there.... I get it now, I think it does and that could definitely be a
show stopper. I don't have the source code to the main application - so I
have no way of stopping the main application using gethostbyname outside my
mutex.
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