Re: [kitten] New Version Notification for draft-kaduk-kitten-gss-loop-02.txt (fwd)

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

Martin,

The C bindings release/delete functions generally take a pointer to a
variable that holds the thing being released precisely so they can set
that variable to the appropriate GSS_C_NO_* value.

Now, I realize that RFC2744 isn't the model of completeness -- it
evidently doesn't say this one really important thing (from a quick
skim before running off to dinner).  I don't really care that it
doesn't say that (if indeed it doesn't).  It should have, as it's very
clearly the intended behavior (otherwise why on earth take that
pointer instead of just the value to be released/deleted?) and in fact
the behavior that the implementations I'm familiar with have.  An
update should say it.  I'd be OK with a note that there might be
implementations that don't do this.

Nico
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