[15944] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: design choices for a loadable module interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Fiveash)
Tue Jun 29 20:32:17 2010
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:32:22 -0500
From: Will Fiveash <will.fiveash@oracle.com>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:09:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Will Fiveash <will.fiveash@oracle.com> writes:
>
> > Yes, I've found searching for plugin method definitions to be a total
> > pain when vtables are used and each plugin can arbitrarily name the
> > method/function assigned to the vtable. It would be much easier to
> > locate the various method definitions if the method/function names were
> > the same across all plugins supporting that method and that was enforced
> > by the plugin SPI framework.
>
> Those of us who write plugins that support multiple Kerberos
> implementations will just write stub functions to fit the MIT Kerberos
> plugin ABI that call other functions anyway, so you're going to have a
> similar problem with vtables or without them.
One would hope the stub would live in the same file as the actual method
which is still a more straightforward way of locating method
definitions.
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