Hi Chas! On 10 Aug 2006, at 16:33, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] muenchen.de>,Roland Kuhn writes:Why is it necessary to identify a PAG by something else than the equivalent keyring? Forgive my ignorance about keyring internals, but I would imagine that a PAG is represented by processes holding a reference to a certain keyring, which in turn contains an authentication token for AFS.i dont really understand what you are asking. i guess you are askingwhy the session keyring doesnt contain a key with the afs authenticationtoken. it could. however, a generalized pag interface would simply provide a unique identifier for each process group.
My point is: What would you want to do with this identifier? What is it needed for? Which operations are made possible by knowing this identifier?
To David:AFAICS there is no scarcity issue if you simply attach some token to some processes... But on the other hand the world isn't going to stop turning because I don't understand this ;-)
Ciao,
Roland
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