[OpenAFS-devel] Re: MEMORY credential cache interop between Heimdal and MIT?

Ken Hornstein kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:39:37 -0400


>If Unix mode bits are used, that is no different from using a ccache file
>which has the ownership problem described in the web server scenario. If
>descriptor inheritance is used, descriptors are not inherited across
>execv which breaks Henry's "admin window" scenario.

You are incorrect.  Descriptors are certainly inherited across execv()
calls (unless you explicitly set them to close-on-exec).  The ccache
I created depends on this.

--Ken