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Re: GSS API (as a DLL)...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley C. Spatz)
Tue Aug 16 18:23:43 1994
To: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Aug 1994 09:57:44 +0700."
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 15:18:39 EDT
From: "Bradley C. Spatz" <bcs@cis.ufl.edu>
+-- John Ludeman <johnl@microsoft.com>, writes:
|
| I apologize for this tangential issue, but somebody has expressed
| concern that a Dynamic Link Library type mechanism for the GSS APIs (or
| DLLs in general) are not suitable because there is not wide support on
| many Unix systems. This is the first time I have heard this concern
| and I wanted to make sure we're not going down a road of woe and despair.
|
| Could somebody with experience on the interesting Unix platforms
| comment on this concern?
I think the Unix analog of a DLL would be a shared library. Such
libraries are common on most versions of Unix.
