Thread-safe libraries

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Tue Feb 24 14:45:40 EST 2004


>>>>> "Lukas" == Lukas Kubin <kubin at opf.slu.cz> writes:

    Lukas> Is there any progress in the ability of Kerberos libraries
    Lukas> on Linux to be used by threads-enabled applications?  I'm
    Lukas> still having troubles using sasl kerberos authentication to
    Lukas> ldap server on Linux (Debian). It always fails when
    Lukas> parallel connection appears.  Is there any solution for
    Lukas> this now?  Thank you.

I believe someone has written a patch to the SASL library to use
mutexes around GSSAPI calls.

MIT is working on thread safety for our libraries but has not released
any code yet.



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