[Samba] RE: FW: samba woes

Wed Jun 26 12:39:02 GMT 2002

Yes it would be

Christopher Johnston
Merrill Lynch / DCSA
(201) 671-2368
http://linux.worldnet.ml.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Langasek [mailto:vorlon at netexpress.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:03 PM
To: Jeremy Allison
Cc: Johnston, Christopher (DCSA); 'samba-technical at samba.org'; 'samba at samba.org'
Subject: Re: [Samba] RE: FW: samba woes

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:32:09AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:30:03PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > Dave C-B has previously posted here details of an smbsh redesign 
> > that would allow preloading of libsmbwrapper.so to work under Linux 
> > in spite of the glibc changes.  In fact, it would work better, as 
> > his design doesn't require *any* of the current autoconf checks for 
> > systems that support dlsym(RTLD_NEXT).  That includes Linux, the 
> > BSDs, and Solaris, AIUI, and possibly other systems where smbsh is 
> > currently used.

> > It's simply a matter of digging in and recoding libsmbwrapper.

> Oh, thanks Steve, I missed that. Can you point me to the mailing list 
> archives for this ? Maybe we can get it done for 3.0.x ?

Top of the thread:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba-technical&m=101683637902994&w=2

It'd be great to see smbsh come back to Linux for 3.0.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer