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To: David Howells <dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] AFS filesystem for Linux (2/2) 
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>>>>> " " == David Howells <dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com> writes:

    >> Whereas I doubt that AFS uses RPCSEC_GSS, I believe that the
    >> kerberos code itself (+ upcall mechanism for getting user
    >> tokens etc.) could be reused by you. I presume that you would
    >> make use of the sunrpc code too?

     > I would if I could, but RxRPC is a sufficiently different
     > protocol to make that impractical:-/

How badly does it differ? If you are talking only about a couple of
differences in the RPC headers, then that is something that can easily
be overcome...

Cheers,
  Trond