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Re: Kerberos NT source code

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Tue Oct 21 13:11:21 1997

To: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:16:30 EDT."
             <199710210016.UAA28564@dcl.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:08:59 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>

>   Is there a chance that the goal could be thread-safe as well?  I know what
>   Ted's views about threaded applications are from LinuxExpo but I'm
>   wondering if anyone has talked about that.
>
>Thread-safety (beyond on a per-connection basis using krb5_context)
>isn't really high on the priority list at this point.  We have many
>other things we'd like to do with krb5 source tree first....

I'm sure I don't understand all of the issues regarding threads ... but
I thought the big one was global variables, and nearly all of them are
in krb5_context.  Are there others?

--Ken

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