After some discussion with mit and heimdal lead engineers, I don't want to support ms at the moment. mit does not use kdc_timeout at all and heimdal's internal presentation is of seconds.
So this is my plan: support "s" but if unspecified treat it as "ms". There will be a release notes describing this. This won't automatically fix the case for the bug reporter but at least give him a workaround -- use the 's' unit for interop. Does this sound clean? Thanks Max On May 18, 2014, at 23:12, Xuelei Fan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On May 18, 2014, at 9:48 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> On May 18, 10:06am, [email protected] (Wang Weijun) wrote: >> -- Subject: Re: RFR 8036779: sun.security.krb5.KdcComm interprets kdc_timeout >> >> | How about this? I will support "s" and "ms" units ("ms" is not defined by >> o= >> | ther vendors though). But will still try to be a little smart when there >> is= >> | no unit. >> >> Heuristics can make the situation worse; they are difficult to document >> and explain to users. But if java is going to support ms, let's coordinate >> with heimdal and mit to make them support it too. >> > +1 > > Xuelei > >> christos >>
