[38560] in Kerberos
Re: Relation between krb5_creds and krb5_context
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jul 16 12:34:36 2019
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:26:48 -0400
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On 7/16/19 10:23 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> what is the significance of the krb5_context that
> krb5_free_creds() takes as its first argument?
In the beginning there was a design principle that every libkrb5 API
would take a context parameter (though there are a few exceptions). The
context parameter for krb5_free functions is unused and is likely to
remain unused. I have considered making a pass through the API and
documenting that the context parameter is optional for a bunch of
functions, including krb5_free functions.
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