[15964] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: DAL cleanup project proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simo Sorce)
Sun Jul 4 13:58:52 2010
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 13:58:43 -0400
From: Simo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com>
To: ghudson@mit.edu
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On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 14:44:46 -0400 (EDT)
ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote:
> I've made a few minor changes to the project proposal as I've started
> working more with the code. As a result, I've split out the principal
> and policy API changes (mostly principal API changes) into a separate
> section from "Simple Cleanups".
>
> The most notable new change is that I want to make get_principal
> responsible for allocating the DB entry structure. In my experience,
> it's easier to perform robust error handling when APIs allocate the
> container than when the caller does.
Does this means we can potentially have more allocations when
enumerating principals ?
Passing down a buffer allows you to reuse the same one over and over
with out any allocation if you want to.
Of course if the code was already allocating a buffer before each
get_principal call the point is moot.
Simo.
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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