[PATCH] smbtree_showsharetype.patch

Seb James seb at esfnet.co.uk
Mon Feb 16 07:54:39 MST 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:21 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:49:34AM +0000, Seb James wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > 
> > I have a patch for smbtree.c made against samba 3.3.0 which adds an
> > option for the user to include the share type in the list of shares
> > which smbtree prints.
> > 
> > I'd very much welcome feedback from the smbtree maintainer about this
> > patch and whether it might make it into the samba source. If it's not
> > thought a suitable change, I'd like to know if any code changes would
> > alter that.
> 
> I like this, and I know that char val[16] is safe for
> all the uses you've used it for in this patch, but I'd
> still like to see it use asprintf() instead (and check
> for malloc fail) and correctly free. I'm trying to move
> us away from static buffers on the stack, that way lies
> future security issues :-).
> 
> Jeremy.
> 

I'll make these changes in the code, and then will generate a git
format-patch style patch for Volker Lendecke.

Thanks for the replies.

best,

Seb James





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