[krbdev.mit.edu #2980] Windows XP SP2 and trouble with free library krb5_32.dll

[bapruski@iastate.edu via RT]

Thank you Jeff for the update. This is how it used to be working prior to v.5. 
 All the kerberized applications I wrote in the past (v.4) had to call 
WSAStartup/WSACleanup.

When do you think the change will take place (meaning, when the new libraries 
will be available)?

Beata Pruski


>My proposal for dealing with this issue is to not make calls to
>WSAStartup() or WSACleanup() from any of the Kerberos libraries. 
>Instead it will be the responsibility of the application to initialize
>the Winsock stack prior to calling the Kerberos libraries.
>
>In case there are applications which do not call WSAStartup()/WSACleanup
>which make use of the Kerberos libraries, I will add a registry setting
>which can be used to activate the existing calls within DllMain().
>
>As part of this change, applications such as kinit.exe and kvno.exe will
>have to be modified to call WSAStartup()/WSACleanup().
>
>Jeffrey Altman
>

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