Re: GSS-APIv3 sketch

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Wed, 11 November 2009 19:01 UTC

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:42:44 -0600
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha@apple.com>
Subject: Re: GSS-APIv3 sketch
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:40:50AM -0800, Love Hörnquist Åstrand wrote:
> 
> I have so many comments that I don't know where to start.
> 
> First out: any work that doesn't include async is dead in the water.

Oh, I forgot to mention that.  It does include async.

> Its not mentioned how this is gss3 objects relates to gss2 object.

They are distinct.  The compat shims take care of that.

> Well-defined SPI will force everything to reimplemnent GSS-API
> semantics in all layer, this sucks and duplicates code.

No, see the compat shims.