Hi Greg, -<| Quoting Greg Hudson <ghud...@mit.edu>, on Tuesday, 2019-07-16 12:26:48 PM |>- > On 7/16/19 10:23 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: > > what is the significance of the krb5_context that > > krb5_free_creds() takes as its first argument? > > In the beginning there was a design principle that every libkrb5 API > would take a context parameter (though there are a few exceptions). The > context parameter for krb5_free functions is unused and is likely to > remain unused.
thanks for providing the background. > I have considered making a pass through the API and > documenting that the context parameter is optional for a bunch of > functions, including krb5_free functions. That would be very much appreciated. For now I’ll have to do some digging in the code to find out which of the APIs we use actually require a context. Best regards, Philipp
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