[43] in Kerberos
Re: How am I supposed to cleanly get
jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Aug 9 21:18:55 1987
From wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Tue Aug 12 11:38:38 1986
To: bcn%deep-thought@eddie.mit.edu
Cc: kerberos@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Re: How am I supposed to cleanly get at the session key?
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue 12 Aug 86 10:51:26-EDT.
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 86 11:35:26 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
While you're breaking "retrieve", I'd like to make a little bit of a
plea for a more sane name for the routine; it's a rather generic name
to use for something in a library routine. I've had to debug things
where there were name collisions before; it's not fun. The worst case
was debugging "lpc"; it had a routine called "select" in it; when it
was first linked with the nameserver library, this broke the
nameserver (which called the "select" system call to allow a timed-out
read) It took me a few hours of single-stepping to figure out that
this was indeed the case. Perhaps krb_retrieve would be a better
name?
- Bill
