Thread-safe libraries

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Hornstein <kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

    >> It is also worth noting, that, while Heimdal is not thread safe
    >> (at least there are no guarantees), it has proven to be much
    >> more thread-robust than MIT.  OpenLDAP page and a couple of
    >> users have expirienced problems with MIT and threaded OpenLDAP
    >> server, while Heimdal performed flawlessly.
    >> 
    >> It could be that Heimdal IS thread-safe, just nobody knows for
    >> sure. :-)

    Ken> I believe that many of the problems of thread-safeness in MIT
    Ken> Kerberos result from the lack of any file locking in the
    Ken> replay cache code.

It would be nice if someone having crashes with OpenLDAP would get a
backtrace showing this.  Certainly if the problem were well-defined
we'd be happy to spend a bit of time making Open LDAP users' lives
easier possibly on a relatively short time scale.

--Sam