[15997] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Plugin project proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Thu Jul 15 17:23:32 2010
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:22:45 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>
To: Zhanna Tsitkova <tsitkova@mit.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 04:57:54PM -0400, Zhanna Tsitkova wrote:
> The assumption here was that krb5 contexts are usually created at the
> start-up, are long-living and there are very few contexts created. So,
> ...
I think that's a bad assumption. Making krb5_init_context() extra
expensive strikes me as a bad idea; the fact that it'd be equally
expensive regardless of caller intention is hardly comforting.
> On the other hand there are consumers who would prefer to load all
> what they need and have the free ride at the run time, right?
Make themn explicitly request that.
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