KLL as a cross-platform API

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Tue Apr 20 15:20:01 EDT 2004


On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:41:53PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

What Sam said.

Nico
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