Speed problem - smbclient doesn't send duplicate ACKs in case of pacekt loss

[John H Terpstra]

Derrell,

Great work. Wow! Thanks. Sounds like you have had some "fun" and have spent 
many hours basking in code. Your efforts are much appreciated.

Cheers,
John T.

On Monday 03 January 2005 22:46, Derrell.Lipman at UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:
> Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> writes:
> > Can you send me this patch asap for evaluation please !
> > I'd like to get this into the latest 3.0.11pre release.
>
> Here it is, a bit earlier than expected.
>
> Attached is a patch to the latest 3.0.11pre2 tree which features the
> following bug fixes and additional capabilities.  The changes are explained
> here in approximately the order in which they are found in the patch.
>
> - lib/util.c and lib/select.c
>
>   * In an application with signals, it was possible for functions to block
>     indefinitely while awaiting timeouts.  This patch ensures that if a
> system call with a timeout is aborted and needs to be restarted, it is
> restarted with a timeout which is adjusted for the amount of time already
> waited.
>
> - libsmb/clisecdesc.c
>
>   * Fixed a bug in which it was possible for memory to be freed without
> having been first allocated.
>
> - libsmb/libsmbclient.c
>
>   * My previous contribution of extended attribute functions applied
> primarily to access control lists.  These changes add the ability to set
> and get the DOS attributes.  This change was needed because simulating the
> DOS attributes with mode bits in chmod() was unreliable; i.e. for
> directories, changes to these bits were ignored entirely (since directories
> need to have the execute bits set).  It is now possible to set and get DOS
> attributes of any file or folder using the new extended attribute
> functions.
>
>   * URL encoding and decoding was not done symmetrically.  Although
>     smbc_opendir() and smbc_open() expected a url-encoded path (e.g. spaces
>     converted to "%20", etc.), smbc_readdir() would return non-url-encoded
>     paths.  There are many times when this is desired behavior, e.g. when
> the returned paths are to be presented directly to a user.  However, there
> are also many times when it would be better to have the returned strings
> url- encoded, e.g. when they will be appended to the path opened with
> smbc_opendir() and passed back to an smbc_*() function.
>
>     ~ smbc_urldecode() and smbc_urlencode() are now publicly accessible
>       functions.
>
>     ~ added an option in the context structure to specify whether or not to
>       url-encode returned readdir entries.
>
>   * In my earlier patch, currently in the 3.0 tree, I had provided a method
> of specifying which master browser to query when browsing for workgroups.
> This was to solve the problem that a master browser which has been running
> for only a short period of time does not yet know about all workgroups on
> the local network.  I had implemented a method where one could pass
> "smb://" or "smb://?mb=.any" to use, as was traditional, the first
> discovered master browser; or "smb://?mb=.all" to request the browse list
> from all discovered master browsers and return a merged list.
>
>     Unfortunately, my implementation violated the URI syntax.  In this
> patch, I have removed the the previous implementation (following
> discussions a few months ago with crh and rsharpe) and replaced it with a
> choice in a set of options within the context structure.
>
>   * Fixed a bug where memory was freed after having been previously freed.
>
>   * Added the capability, again through an options selection in the
> context, to have only one connection per server.  Previously, each share
> would get its own connection.  For long-running applications, it is not
> necessarily desirable to maintain lots and lots of connections -- in fact,
> XP Home appears to stop replying if too many connections are established
> concurrently -- so instead, a single connection may be maintained with a
> tree connect being issued for each change of share use on that server.
>
> - libsmb/cliconnect.c
>
>   * cli_tdis() was not setting the cnum field back to -1, so there was no
> way to determine whether an existing tree connection was active.
>
> - libsmb/libsmb_cache.c
>
>   * more changes here pertaining to whether to reuse a connection to a
> server for multiple shares, or to establish a new connection for each
> share.
>
> - include/libsmb_internal.h
>
>   * The space for directory entries was not adequate given the new option
> of urlencoding the returned directory entries
>
> - include/libsmbclient.h
>
>   * mappings of DOS mode bits
>
>   * new _smbc_options structure in context.  The capabilities are explained
> in excruciating detail, therein.
>
>
>
> Note that all new features default to the original behavior, to prevent
> backwards compatibility issues, except for the number of local master
> browsers to query for the list of workgroups.  This now defaults to 3
> instead of 1, which is a reasonable compromise between getting an accurate
> browse list, and the extra (really, pretty insubstantial) amount of time
> required to query additional local master browsers.
>
> I've been running with these changes for the past few months with no
> problems, so I believe this to be a reasonably stable patch.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Derrell

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