[2188] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos for DOS and OS/2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Backman)
Fri Sep 11 12:10:13 1992
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:07:33 GMT
From: backman@vax.ftp.com (Larry Backman)
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU
In article <9209012341.AA22373@endor.harvard.edu> ddl@DAS.HARVARD.EDU (Dan Lanciani) writes:
>> |Is your krb for OS/2 process or thread reentrant?
>>
>> It is, by definition, process-reentrant. I have no idea how
>> it would react to multi-threading as there many potential critical
>> sections. Tracking them down will have to wait until I have an
>> application that can make real use of multi-threading (beyond being able
>> to call itself a multi-threaded application in PR releases :).
>>
>> |i.e., is it in a
>> |DLL that can be shared by processes and threads?
>>
>> I never bothered building a DLL; however, FTP Software packages
>> the code as a DLL so it can certainly be done.
>>
As Dan says we ship the kerberos code as a Kerberos DLL. It most certainly
is multi-process reentrant and most probably would break if you wrote a
mutl-threaded app that used kerberos services concurrently.
Our experience so far over the 1.5 years we have been shipping the DLL
is limited; there are few users of OS/2 and fewer even of OS/2 & Kerberos.
L.
