Received: from cz.mit.edu (cs2876-92.austin.rr.com [24.28.76.92]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.9.3p2) with ESMTP id SAA21214; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:51:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by cz.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 8042) id BE3F0E0063; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:51:57 -0500 (EST) To: rt@krbdev.mit.edu Cc: Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #2856] Need a function to clone krb5_context structs for thread safe apps References: From: Sam Hartman Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:51:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Jeffrey Altman via's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:56:15 -0500 (EST)") Message-Id: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii RT-Send-Cc: X-RT-Original-Encoding: us-ascii Content-Length: 217 It's important to note that applications need not free an object with the same context used to acquire that object. The only case where this is needed is if the application makes per-context configuration changes.