[2619] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Kerberos NT source code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Tue Oct 21 23:54:36 1997
To: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Oct 1997 00:09:44 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:54:12 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
>> 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?
>
>Concurrent access to the same krb5_*context.
But according to the V5 API document (yes, such a thing exists! :-) )
the krb5_context is supposed to hold the per-thread information, when
the library is made thread-safe. So it's already being taken as a given
that two threads won't access the same context.
--Ken
