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Re: libss collision ( for from FSH compliance)



I'm fine with stop providing a libss if there alread is one in the  
system.

Heimdal itself doesn't use libss, we use libsl.

Love

5 dec 2007 kl. 13.57 skrev Hai Zaar:

> Guys, please continue here, on separate thread.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
> Date: Dec 5, 2007 11:30 PM
> Subject: Re: FSH compliance.
> To: heimdal-discuss@sics.se, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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> On Dec 5, 2007, at 15:17 , Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>> "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> writes:
>>> My understanding is that this is known and there's ongoing
>>> discussions
>>> between the MIT Kerberos folks, the e2fs folks (these  overlap), the
>>> Heimdal folks, and the OpenAFS folks over this (well,  not for
>>> OpenAFS I
>>> think) and com_err.  It's a somewhat painful  situation all around.
>>
>> ss should have fewer problems than com_err since there aren't the  
>> same
>> thread safety issues.  Can Heimdal just use the e2fsprogs libss if
>> it's
>> already present?
>
> Does libss have the same "multiple APIs in the wild" problem though?
>
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