Proposed platform assumption changes

Henry B. Hotz hotz at jpl.nasa.gov
Tue Jan 31 21:08:06 EST 2012


On Jan 28, 2012, at 9:09 AM, krbdev-request at mit.edu wrote:

> * POSIX signals, IPv6, and thread support have become ubiquitous on
>  platforms people are likely to build krb5 on.  We can reduce
>  complexity (particularly in network code by assuming IPv6) by
>  assuming these features.

I'm guessing this is a distinction without a difference, but IPv6 support is widespread in OSs, NOT widespread on production networks (yet).
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