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

[Wang Weijun]

After some discussion with mit and heimdal lead engineers, I don't want to support ms at the moment. mit does not use kdc_timeout at all and heimdal's internal presentation is of seconds.

So this is my plan: support "s" but if unspecified treat it as "ms". There will be a release notes describing this. This won't automatically fix the case for the bug reporter but at least give him a workaround -- use the 's' unit for interop.

Does this sound clean?

Thanks
Max

On May 18, 2014, at 23:12, Xuelei Fan <Xuelei.Fan at Oracle.Com> wrote:

> 
>> On May 18, 2014, at 9:48 PM, christos at zoulas.com wrote:
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>> On May 18, 10:06am, weijun.wang at oracle.com (Wang Weijun) wrote:
>> -- Subject: Re: RFR 8036779: sun.security.krb5.KdcComm interprets kdc_timeout
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>> | 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.
>> 
> +1
> 
> Xuelei
> 
>> christos
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