Re: [PATCH] AFS filesystem for Linux (2/2)

From: Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 11:03:15 EST


>>>>> " " == David Howells <dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com> writes:

>> Whereas I doubt that AFS uses RPCSEC_GSS, I believe that the
>> kerberos code itself (+ upcall mechanism for getting user
>> tokens etc.) could be reused by you. I presume that you would
>> make use of the sunrpc code too?

> I would if I could, but RxRPC is a sufficiently different
> protocol to make that impractical:-/

How badly does it differ? If you are talking only about a couple of
differences in the RPC headers, then that is something that can easily
be overcome...

Cheers,
  Trond
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