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Re: : Why are we using libverto again

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jul 7 13:36:47 2011

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
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On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 10:44 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Now, for the KDC today, we could just use a specific event library and
> gain significant complexity savings.

The reason I favor an intermediary is that the event loop will be part
of the API for kdcpreauth plugins (and probably KDB and authdata plugins
in the future).  Picking an event loop now carries costs not just for a
future libkdc but also a plugin interface transition cost.


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