Re: KITTEN: IETF 75 - 76

[Nicolas Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 05:20:15PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> There is another model:
> 
> > > while (1) {
>         gss_process_events(&minor, ...);
> > > ...

The problem with this model is that it has the GSS-API impose its own
event loop on the application.  Imagine if every library did that!  An
application that uses multiple such libraries, where some such libraries
use other such libraries, would be very difficult to get to work at all,
particularly without threading or sub-processes.

I don't understand your aversion to callbacks.  Callbacks are
exceedingly common in C APIs nowadays, and that's a good thing, IMO.

Nico
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