krb5_cc_gen_new

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:00:55AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >What exactly would be the purpose of this hint?
> 
> Its primarily for debugging or for user display purposes.  It is better
> for the name of the cache to have some meaning the simply be an entirely 
> random string.

Why not make it a principal name, as in your example (IIRC).

> Can anyone please explain what harm is going to occur by providing an
> optional hint?

We can add hints to many function prototypes just for the purposes of
debugging...