Re: [RFC] new client gssd upcall

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 05:59:29PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:36 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:28:59AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > Has any thought been given to moving all of the rpc_pipefs upcalls to use
> > > the keyctl API that David Howells did? It seems like that would be better
> > > suited to this sort of application than rpc_pipefs...
> > 
> > I haven't looked at it.  I've just assumed that since Trond and Kevin
> > have both looked at both API's, then there must be some good reason
> > we're not using it....
> 
> Kevin has spent quite some time working on the keyring support, but as
> far as I understand the amount of time he can continue to spend working
> for CITI has recently been heavily reduced...

Hm, but I thought that you'd both decided that the gssd upcalls would
end up coexisting with the upcalls in any case?

If there's a chance we might end up replacing the gssd upcalls entirely,
then--while I don't want to stretch out this one task
indefinitely--still it might be worth my time to go take a look at the
keyctl API's Jeff mentions.

--b.