On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:43 -0500, John Dennis wrote: > > I think Simo's suggestion of using the delete callback in these cases > is > the best idea. If you allow returning values from the delete > operation > you have the potential for inconsistencies. How do you know if value > returned is still valid after the delete? It might have been freed by > the delete callback. No API changes are necessary and no performance > impacts are encountered if you just use the callback mechanism.
The only problem is that the delete_callback has no context, but this is a problem I was already seeing in other contexts. I'm preparing a patch so that the callback can get a private data pointer. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York _______________________________________________ sssd-devel mailing list sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel
