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

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Sun May 18 13:48:20 UTC 2014


On May 18, 10:06am, weijun.wang at oracle.com (Wang Weijun) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: RFR 8036779: sun.security.krb5.KdcComm interprets kdc_timeout

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

Heuristics can make the situation worse; they are difficult to document
and explain to users. But if java is going to support ms, let's coordinate
with heimdal and mit to make them support it too.

christos




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