Mechanism extensions and the GSSAPI

[Jeffrey Altman]

Douglas E. Engert wrote:

>There may be some issues with regards to linking against shared libraries
>vs using dlopen/dlsym.  Many mechglue implementations use dlopen to 
>load a number of mechs. 
>
>If the application needs to use mech specific routines, and links against
>the mech shared library, it might pickup some additional or wrong entry
>points, since the actually implementation of the mech is not really 
>known until run time.   
>
>So the mech-specific/implementation-specific "glue shim" may need to be 
>their own shared or dynamic libraries and the use of dlopen with RTLD_GLOBAL
>vs RTLD_LOCAL may need to be looked at closely. 
>
Would it make sense to have a function which returns
a reference to the mech-specific library from the gss
layer?  We certainly would not want the mech specific
library to be multiply initialized.  Or to accidently
load the wrong implementation of it.