krb5_cc_gen_new

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> writes:

    Jeffrey> On Sunday, January 02, 2005 16:02:41 -0500 Sam Hartman
    Jeffrey> <hartmans at mit.edu> wrote:

    >>>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at columbia.edu> writes:
    >>
    Jeffrey> Sam Hartman wrote:
    >> >>>>>>> "Love" == Love <lha at stacken.kth.se> writes:
    Love> Hi Given that external applications can't use
    Love> krb5_cc_gen_new since they differ between Heimdal and MIT
    Love> Kerberos, third party just asked about it. I propose the
    Love> following replacement function.
    >> >> Why do you want the hint?  It seems to complicate the
    >> interface >> for no value.
    >> 
    Jeffrey> I want the hint to provide useful information when the
    Jeffrey> cache name is displayed to end users.
    >>  I'm concerned that with the hint, this interface is too
    >> similiar to krb5_cc_resolv.

    Jeffrey> Because it takes the same number and type of arguments?
    Jeffrey> That seems a little paranoid.
And they mean roughly the same things?  I don't see how the operations
are different except that gen_new must deal with duplicate hints.