Client RPC timeout too short

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Raeburn <raeburn at MIT.EDU> writes:

    Ken> On Jul 31, 2007, at 18:41, Sam Hartman wrote:
    >> It seems kind of unfortunate that the getprincs RPC is designed
    >> in such a way that you need this mod.

    Ken> The approach Cygnus came up with (though I think it was more
    Ken> about producing a responsive GUI than avoiding actual
    Ken> timeouts -- but I didn't work on that piece myself) was to
    Ken> extend the admin protocol so you could fetch a small number
    Ken> of principals at a time, repeating to fetch the entire set.
    Ken> Perhaps we should adopt some variant of this.

This is clearly superior except in implementation complexity.