On Monday, June 06, 2005 05:26:02 PM -0700 Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Troy Benjegerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
So, if I'm interested in getting openafs/src/aklog/ updated, and
included, would it maybe be best to try to port libkafs to work with
both heimdal and MIT kerberos? (and the corresponding configure hackery
to auto-detect which flavor?)
The bits you need to do the kernel stuffing should already be in libsys
(just to avoid creating yet more OpenAFS libraries). This is where the
previous discussion about providing a shared AFS system call interface
library comes up, though, and the general feeling was that the autoreg
stuff was important enough that you need PTS anyway, at which point you
may as well just link with the regular AFS libraries and not worry about
limited libraries like libkafs.
In general, I would strongly discourage folks from writing their own code
to do token-stuffing or other AFS syscalls if at all possible, and instead
to use one of libsys or libkafs.
I would also argue strongly against including code in OpenAFS which depends
on libkafs rather than using libsys. The reason is that as OpenAFS is
ported to new platforms (and new versions of existing platforms), the
user<->kernel interface is likely to change, and libsys usually knows about
these changes sooner than libkafs.
-- Jeff
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