Re: GSS-APIv3 sketch

[Nicolas Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:59:26AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I'm hoping that Volker or Metze (CC'ed async experts on the Samba Team)
> can fill out some more detail, but I'll start by nothing that anything
> that requires threads, or causes the library to start threads is a
> non-starter for Samba.  
> 
> Creating threads behind the applications' back is a really bad idea. 

In the Solaris unified process model this can just happen.  That is,
libraries are free to create worker threads.

> We really need a proper state machine, with integration available into
> our event library (or any other the event library the caller
> provides).  

That's much more work, and much less portable, and much more OS-/event-
API-specific.  I'm speaking here from a standardization point of view.
(In fact, using libevent would result in reasonably portable interfaces,
certainly across all Unix, Linux, and BSD type operating systems.  But
that's beside the point that I'm making.)

I think implementations could certainly have such interfaces, but I
think we'd not standardize them here.

Nico
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