Release Meeting Minutes/2011-09-20

Will Fiveash, Carlos Garay, Thomas Hardjono, Sam Hartman, Greg Hudson, Nathaniel McCallum, Simo Sorce, Tom Yu

Nathaniel

MSDN says no socketpair.

Tom

Win32 doesn't have fork either, so test suite can't run on Win32 anyway.

Nathaniel

OK, will merge.

Greg

verto integration issues: KDC goes deaf on OS X. kadmind does on Solaris.

Nathaniel

Whether they report errors. Sometimes the underlying event fires in error conditions.

Greg

String attributes. Whether we should document conventions for keys. Maybe namespaces. Nico says plugin name should be part of key name. Registry?

Simo

Forcing vendors to register not good. Or maybe make prefix part of the API.

Sam

Wiki page.

Simo

Wiki won't be up to date if people don't know about it. Opposed to global prefix. Makes it harder for sysadmin who is casually experimenting with command line kadmin.

Greg

[ CCAPI ] several revs to protocol.

Sam

RPC protocol independent of API.

Greg

Only version on Windows is v2. Implementation deemed not good. New implementation v3. Client/server code platform independent. v3 only shipped on OS X.

Sam

Test suite claims to be woefully incomplete for odd definitions of "incomplete". It actually has a lot of tests.

Greg

Single-threaded. Locks. Callbacks. Operations might not return immediately. v3 Windows platform RPC. Kevin Koch used bidirectional RPC [ Windows RPC requires all RPCs to return. ]

Sam

Performance really dreadful.

Greg

Try porting DIRCACHE to Windows. Would give you collections.

Sam

GSS name to UID. Creates dependency on uid_t. Bad on Windows. Is uid_t even the right thing here.

Greg

pname_to_uid...

Will

Not sure about that one. Solaris internal, maybe?

Sam

If we keep it, would like to know when to expose it. Want it to return a local name instead.