Updated draft for kadmind plugin API

[Jeffrey Altman]

Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> I dislike complicating an API with "trivial" overhead functions, like  
> special-purpose versions of free().  It's a forrest-for-trees, kind  
> of thing.  If we can't leave it as-is, can't we just declare that you  
> use the standard system malloc()/free() routines?

You cannot assume that an application, a library, and a plug-in are all
using the same memory pool and C Runtime functions.  That is why it is a
requirement that we have special functions to release memory allocations
from within the module that performed the allocation in the first place.

Jeffrey Altman
Secure Endpoints Inc.
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