Plugin project proposal

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at oracle.com
Thu Jul 15 17:22:45 EDT 2010


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 04:57:54PM -0400, Zhanna Tsitkova wrote:
> The assumption here was that krb5 contexts are usually  created at the
> start-up, are long-living and there are very few contexts created. So,
> ...

I think that's a bad assumption.  Making krb5_init_context() extra
expensive strikes me as a bad idea; the fact that it'd be equally
expensive regardless of caller intention is hardly comforting.

> On the other hand there are consumers who would prefer to load all
> what they need and have the free ride at the run time, right?

Make themn explicitly request that.



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