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

Jeffrey Altman via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Fri Apr 22 20:31:23 EDT 2005


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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