[15836] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Sanity check: GSSAPI SPI simplifications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Tue May 25 11:52:59 2010
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:52:39 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>
To: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:35:01AM -0400, Tom Yu wrote:
> Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com> writes:
>
> > (Aside: I suspect that most mechglues will have sufficiently similar
> > SPIs that targeting multiple mechglues will generally be feasible.)
>
> ...except that there is some disagreement about whether the GSS-API
> itself is a suitable SPI for a mechglue.
I used to be a strong proponent of the API as the SPI. Now I think the
API is a good model for the SPI, but that the API as-is not good as the
SPI. I'm not sure how much disagreement there is about this.
I'm glad that Greg asked though. The SPI surely will someday be a
public interface, so even though it's private now evolution of it should
be subject to debate. In this case I think the proposed evolution is
perfectly fine.
Nico
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