[OpenAFS-devel] Re: openafs / opendfs collaboration

[David Howells]

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:

> So, my question is...  what do I use as a label?

You could use the session keyring ID. Each key (keyrings are a special type of
key) has a "unique" ID which is a signed 32-bit number. I say "unique", but
after all the two billion possible key IDs have been iterated through, the ID
allocator will begin again from 1, skipping the IDs still in use.

David