Proposal to export gssapi context

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:41:34PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
>     Nicolas> For this purpose I think XDR
>     Nicolas> is quite appropriate (newsflash: the NFS implementation already uses XDR
>     Nicolas> in the kernel :)  so using XDR here does not add any significant burden
>     Nicolas> on the kernel).
> 
> But does one non-standard approach have a significant cost over
> another?  I.E. what do we gain by adding a parsing step here if we
> aren't going to standardize it?

Not much, but you guys seemed to be arguing over the use of a union, so
I thought I'd suggest something that would sidestep that argument.  But,
never mind :)

Nico
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