samba shares access issue in Solaris from a MT program
Richard Sharpe
rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Fri Sep 24 16:24:16 GMT 2004
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Narayana Pattipati wrote:
[Nice description of problem redacted.]
> If samba is build with "-mt" flags, then the errno will be pointed
> to __errno() macro, instead of global errno, and thread executing samba
> code will be able to access correct errno.
>
> I have few open questions based on this:
> a) I read from samba site that its not MT safe. But since the code runs in
> one thread only, is it OK to build samba with "-mt" compiler flags ?
> What would be the side effects if samba is build with -mt compiler
> flags ?
I cannot see any problems with this, off my head.
> b) One workaround to fix this issue is to define errno as __errno() in the
> file samba/sources/lib/util_sock.c file. Again what would be the side
> affects of this change ?
I doubt that this will happen. This code is deep in Samba 3 and we do not
want to disturb it.
> c) There is a mention that in samba 4.0.0, the libraries will be made
> thread compliant so that they can be called from MT applications.
> Is that correct ? If so, what would be the time frame for samba 4
> release.
There are two issues here:
1. Any Samba 4 release might not happen for a year yet.
2. Libsmbclient will then have to be ported over to Samba 4 and possibly
made thread safe or reentrant or both.
Regards
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