>>>>> "Ezra" == Ezra Peisach via RT <rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

Ezra> Sam Hartman via RT wrote:
>> Note that callers should not be releasing buffers that they allocated.
>> So I think we need only be consistent within our implementation and
>> within mechanisms that plug into our implementation.
>> 
>> 
Ezra> Exactly....  The mechanism interface has changed the implementation 
Ezra> requirements.  The release_buffer is not passed down to the mech 
Ezra> specific handlers.  So - self consistency in the implementation would 
Ezra> now require a change in the k5sealv3.c code...

I think some interpretations of the spec require that an application
be able to assume that a zero length buffer doesn't need to be
released.  We should probably adjust k5sealv3.c to be consistent with
that.