Thread safety of GSSAPI with Kerberos V5 Release 1.4

[nukala krishna]

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the suggestion. I will make sure that my GSS-API context is being used by one thread at a time. 

And can you give me similar information about 1.2 and 1.3 releases too. Why I am asking this question is, because some of the Red Hat Linux platforms comes with 1.2 versions of Kerberos V5 releases. I am thinking of possibilities for using  libraries which comes with the OS instead of building my own libraries.

Thanks
Hari        


----- Original Message ----
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu>
To: nukala krishna <hari_nv2001 at yahoo.co.in>
Cc: krbdev at MIT.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, 29 August, 2007 9:47:01 PM
Subject: Re: Thread safety of GSSAPI with Kerberos V5 Release 1.4


>>>>> "nukala" == nukala krishna <hari_nv2001 at yahoo.co.in> writes:

    nukala> Hi all, I am using GSSAPI of MIT Kerberos V5 Release 1.4
    nukala> on Linux, AIX and Solaris. I want to know whether the
    nukala> GSSAPI of 1.4 release is thread safe or not. If not,
    nukala> anyone can please tell me which version is thread safe.

1.4 is certainly intended to be relatively thread safe, but of course
  bug fixes have been introduced into 1.5 and 1.6.

For GSS-API, you need to make sure any given context is only being
used in at most one thread at any given time.


--Sam


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