KLL as a cross-platform API

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Tue Apr 20 14:41:53 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Miro" == Miro Jurisic <meeroh at meeroh.org> writes:

    >> - All these functions need a KLL context argument.
    Miro> What problem are you trying to solve with the "add a context
    Miro> argument to all APIs" silver bullet?

Extensibility and thread safety.  I believe we've already decided to
do so.

Alexis has decided that krb5 was wrong to require every function to
take a context; functions that take objects already having contexts
will not take contexts.

--Sam



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