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Re: GSS-APIv3 sketch

Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE> Thu, 12 November 2009 20:05 UTC

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From: Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
Subject: Re: GSS-APIv3 sketch
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:42:51PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 07:54:56PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > Let me point out another thing: By using threads and a
> > purely blocking API, you force everyone into threads. If you
> > do it async, it is very easy to create blocking wrappers
> > around the async calls which then can be used in threaded
> > programs. The other way round is a lot harder.
> 
> That ship has sailed: Solaris 10 and up has a unified process model, and
> it's a threaded process model.

So GSSAPI is a Solaris only thing?

Volker

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