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Re: is krb5_cc_initialize() thread safe

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein via krbdev)
Thu Feb 20 20:53:08 2025

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>In my testing I've had gssd setup use the "default" ccache type which
>is FILE. I haven't tried if setting it use_memory (switching to
>MEMORY) works better. But regardless, gssd needs to do something
>"better" for the case of FILE credential type and I'm trying to figure
>out what that should be.

Greg does bring up the larger meta-issue that you're apparantly trying
to have two threads call krb5_cc_initiualize() on the same FILE
credential cache; what, exactly, are you trying to accomplish there?

--Ken
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