From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Compatability: dlinfo needed for kerberos
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:24:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120610142406.GG163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120610063542.0706d8eb@newbook>
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 06:35:42AM -0700, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> MIT Kerberos 5 1.10.2 and OpenSSL want dlinfo; while OpenSSL supports
> systems without dlinfo, Kerberos requires it on any non-Windows
> systems (Windows has an equivalent API).
> AFAICT the file that it occurs in must be built.
Have you looked into what it's used for? I'm not 100% rejecting it at
this time, but I really dislike the dlinfo interface. It exposes a lot
of internals that applications should not be inspecting and seems to
require us to keep around extra bloated data structures that are not
otherwise needed.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-10 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-10 13:35 Isaac Dunham
2012-06-10 13:43 ` orc
2012-06-10 14:24 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2012-06-10 14:50 ` Isaac Dunham
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