Developing a VFS plugin for inhouse backup solution

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 22:06 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 05:12:46PM -0800, Brian Gunlogson wrote:
> > Inside my VFS SMB_VFS_OP_OPEN I want to store per-file data. The data needs to be accessible when
> > SMB_VFS_OP_CLOSE is called. Where (in what structure) should per-file data be stored?
> 
> This is a bug in Samba really. We should have a "private" data pointer
> available in the files_struct and the connection_struct for VFS use. I'll
> fix this for 3.0.12.

Just as you crack that can of worms open, just watch out that there is a
full scheme of stackable VFS modules there...

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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