[AFS3-std] rxgk implementation notes

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> 
>> On 28 Feb 2013, at 22:05, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>
>>>  All I see looking nowis discussion of using the maxcalls information as a 
>>> way to migrate to having more than 4 calls per connection, which doesn't 
>>> sound familiar. We also don't mention whether call numbers in use are 
>>> checked as part of verifying the authenticator -- I do not currently do 
>>> so.
>> 
>> You should just provide the call number vector to the RX layer, which will 
>> take care of checking the call numbers within it (OpenAFS's RX currently 
>> just sets up the connection according to the provided authenticator, which 
>> will cause non-matching calls to fail as they are encountered)
>
> Oh, hmm, I guess rxi_SetCallNumberVector is exported.

We should probably adjust the description of 
RXGK_Authenticator.call_numbers, as my first reading of it was that the 
variable-length array was only to include active calls, not the whole 
vector.  Perhaps something about "all available call channels" on this 
connection?

-Ben