[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Hornstein) wrote in news:200203281423.g2SENBY21585 @ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil:
>>No - ALL kerberos stuff is housed within the mutex, one at a time through >>the funnel. > > I think Ken's point was that if elsewhere in your program you call > gethostbyname() (or perhaps a function that calls gethostbyname()) _not_ > in the Kerberos routines, then the gethostbyname() in the Kerberos library > could fail since gethostbyname() isn't thread-safe. As you describe it, > the mutex just blocks other calls to the Kerberos library, right? It > doesn't completely stop other threads. Mmm... getting through my thick skull slowly..... Its there.... I get it now, I think it does and that could definitely be a show stopper. I don't have the source code to the main application - so I have no way of stopping the main application using gethostbyname outside my mutex. -- --- /* Christopher Burke - Spam Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |* www.craznar.com - \* Real mail to cburke(at)craznar(dot)com ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
