Re: [kitten] RFC 2744 Appendix A erratum

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

[changed subject]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Martin Rex wrote:

>
> The "*" on the output parameters in the Appendix A sample header file
> seem to have disappeared during I-D revision 05->06 of the C-bindings
> draft, they were present during -00 through -05:
>
>  http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=rfc2744.txt&url1=draft-ietf-cat-gssv2-cbind-05.txt#diff0410

Thanks for tracking down the version with the change (and the diff).

> A "fix" of that size appears somewhat huge for the errata process.

I agree.
However, it seems that replacing " ," with " *," (all 68 occurrences) 
suffices to fix almost all of the problem.  gss_export_name()'s 
minor_status parameter would not be caught by this replacement, but could 
be mentioned separately.

> Filing an errata that describes the nature of the problem--maybe including
> a suitable URL to rfcdiff like the one above for visualizing the problem,
> might be preferable.

I'll probably file an erratum with the old/new text I mentioned above and 
your rfcdiff URL at some point, maybe later today.

> Btw. there is another problem with the gssapi.h sample header file
> in rfc2744:  for 64-bit, there exists a binary-incompatibility
> between the X/Open defined GSS-API C-bindings and the IETF-defined
> rfc2744 C-Bindings for "count" member of the gss_OID_set type:
>
> rfc2744:  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2744#page-84
>
>     typedef struct gss_OID_set_desc_struct  {
>         size_t     count;
>         gss_OID    elements;
>     } gss_OID_set_desc, *gss_OID_set;
>
>
> X/Open: http://archive.opengroup.org/publications/archive/CDROM/c441.pdf
> Page 45:
>
>     typedef struct gss_OID_set_desc_struct{
>         int count;
>         gss_OID elements;
>     } gss_OID_set_desc, *gss_OID_set;

Ugh.  Thanks for mentioning it.

-Ben