[20571] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: unbalanced WSAStartup/WSACleanup calls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue May 5 20:45:42 2026
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Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 20:45:29 -0400
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On 5/5/26 13:18, Zvika Meiseles wrote:
> I suspect the krb5 code may execute unbalanced WSAStartup/WSACleanup calls,
> causing premature WinSock cleanup and application crash (following a crash
> I'm investigating where krb5 context cleanup causes WinSock destruction).
I think your analysis is correct. A failure opening or parsing the
config file (via os_init_paths()) will result in a call to WSACleanup()
with no corresponding call to WSAStartup().
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