RFR 8036779: sun.security.krb5.KdcComm interprets kdc_timeout asmsec instead of sec

Wang Weijun weijun.wang at oracle.com
Sun May 18 02:06:30 UTC 2014


How about this? I will support "s" and "ms" units ("ms" is not defined by other vendors though). But will still try to be a little smart when there is no unit.

--Max

On May 15, 2014, at 10:09, Xuelei Fan <xuelei.fan at oracle.com> wrote:
> The actual problem is, what if I want to use 121 seconds?  It is a
> possible timeout value in practice.
> 
>> 
>> If we just change to sec it is a big compatibility issue. User won't
>> notice any error report expect finding their app runs much slower.
>> 
> Then I would suggest to declare it as a known issue, and suggest to use
> explicit spec in practice.




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