[2620] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Kerberos NT source code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Assar Westerlund)
Wed Oct 22 11:19:28 1997
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:05:00 +0200
In-Reply-To: Ken Hornstein's message of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:54:12 -0400"
Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
> 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.
Ok. In that case it seems to me, after a shallow examination, that
Heimdal probably is thread-safe. It only has const global variables
and only one non-const static variable (in krb5_cc_default_name).
/assar
