Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > More generally, it is not reasonable to assert that code which uses the > DES API's (in this case, des_string_to_key) without calling rx_Init is > broken. First, the DES API, which is not unique to AFS, does not have > this requirement. Second, rx_Init has significant side-effects, which > should not be incurred for things that just want to use the DES library. > > The brokenness here is in the DES library, and its inappropriate > dependencies on rx and rxkad. Fix that, and the other problems will go > away. > > -- Jeff
I didn't realize this was a side-effect of the thread local storage changes. I agree we must fix the DES library. Jeffrey Altman
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