[2631] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Kerberos NT source code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Wed Oct 22 17:14:20 1997
To: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mesas.com>, Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>,
Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mesas.com>
Date: 22 Oct 1997 15:50:54 -0500
In-Reply-To: Assar Westerlund's message of 22 Oct 1997 21:43:19 +0200
>>>>> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> writes:
Assar> Sam Hartman <hartmans@mesas.com> writes:
>> Having a per-thread context would be much more reasonable if
>> you could move auth contexts from one context to another. You
>> want to be able to listen, do a krb_rd_req, queue the request
>> to be handled by a worker thread, and have the listener
>> continue its work.
Assar> Why can't you move auth contexts between contexts? Is this
Assar> something specific to the MIT implementation (with which
Assar> I'm not familiar, due to obvious reasons)? I don't see any
Assar> reason why you shouldn't be able to that in Heimdal.
I think that by implementation you can, but when I disccussed
this with proven and Ted, they claimed that this was not supported.
Resources allocated by one context--including auth contexts--shouldn't
be used with other contexts.
Assar> /assar
