"Gabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In particular, I'm looking for Kerberos libraries for the > PocketPC or PalmOS platforms, but knowing the existence of any vendors would > probably be better than nothing.
I'm not aware of anyone shipping Kerberos for either. I can't speak to PocketPC at all, but some months back I tried making a start at building MIT Kerberos with PalmOS tools. Since (a) the GCC tools for PalmOS would require hacking *lots* of source files to put in section declarations for most functions, and (b) CodeWarrior doesn't seem too friendly to big projects already set up using make, apparently needing you to add each file again through the GUI (unless I've missed something, which is entirely possible, I'm very new to CW), I didn't get very far. I've been talking with Jeff Hutzelman about some possible hacks to the GCC toolchain and *small* hacks to the MIT code to let us build a krb5 application more easily, but I don't know if or when I'll get time to implement any of them. A new implementation and new API would have some advantages, like being able to use MemHandles instead of locking down lots of tiny objects at fixed locations so the memory management system couldn't move them. Though it occurs to me that some aspects of this -- namely, the Lock, Access, Unlock sequence -- is not terribly much unlike some of what we need for thread safety...but the desired interfaces are probably very different. The PalmOS memory lock function takes a MemHandle and gives you back a pointer to the object, which is only valid until the unlock call, after which the object may move again. In the krb5 case, we may want one mutex protecting a linked list, in some cases. (Hm, perhaps ordered-list and iterator objects, defined in a system-specific way....) I don't have any familiarity with PocketPC to generalize this to what it might prefer for optimal resource usage. Fortunately, at the library-building level, we wouldn't need to worry much about UI or threading issues. (A little, not much.) Ken ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
