Debugging API for krb5

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Feb 5 17:59:22 EST 2004


Ken Raeburn <raeburn at MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Thursday, Feb 5, 2004, at 17:52 US/Eastern, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> But I still maintain 32 modules is more than sufficient for this case.
>> You don't need to define a generic logging mechanism that gets used by
>> everyone else -- you're just defining one for yourself.
>>
>
> This is certainly a good point.  If the form we come up with now
> allows for reasonable extensibility in the future, the details of the
> implementation shouldn't matter much.  (Though if we have people
> starting to put magic numbers into their config files, that could be a
> problem.)

How are magic numbers any worse than magic strings?

-derek
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