"Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote in message
news:alpine.DEB.1.10.0901311319450.29512_at_yvahk2.pbagnpgbe.fr...
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Markus Moeller wrote:
>
>>> I think a 16K buffer is a tad bit much to use on the stack, so I would
>>> then prefer some kind of allocated buffer for such a thing. The fact
>>> that everything else works fine with 1K today hints that larger buffers
>>> are rarely needed.
>>
>> If you use Kerberos with AD a normal bas 64 ticket is > 1600 bytes and if
>> the user is a member of 100s of groups which is not anusual it gets still
>> much bigger.
>
> Right, I didn't mean to question the need for that size in this case, I
> was just saying that 1K seems to work in all "normal" cases and 1K is
> about what I would consider max to keep on the stack.
>

ok. So it looks like the normal cases never included krb5 with AD.

> So for this command we clearly need to allocate the buffer on the heap
> instead, and since we in fact already have an "upload buffer" allocated
> I'm thinking we can re-use that buffer for this purpose...
>
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>
> / daniel.haxx.se
>
Thank you
Markus
Received on 2009-01-31