threads and contexts and allocations and frees

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Apr 17 16:49:53 EDT 2013


Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at MIT.EDU> writes:

> I believe that with the current implementation, using a different
> krb5_context for freeing a structure than was used to allocate it should
> work just fine.  I don't think we make a guarantee anywhere that this
> will always work, though (but it seems unlikely that we would break this
> ability).

IIRC, this sort of thing can cause problems on Windows due to the way that
the allocators work (although possibly doesn't at the moment depending on
how the code is structured).

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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