Will these patches make it into 2.2.8?

jra at dp.samba.org jra at dp.samba.org
Fri Jan 31 16:56:42 GMT 2003


On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:58:45PM +0100, Michael Steffens wrote:
> Hi Samba team,
> 
> as 2.2.8 seems to approach now, have the following patches been
> considered for it?  They both don't add functionality, but rather
> improve robustness, and are platform independent:
> 
>    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2002-December/041413.html
> 
> prevents winbindd from damaging its own idmap TDB on write failures
> (filesystem full), by rolling back partial changes done by the failed
> store of mapping.
> 
>    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2003-January/041897.html
> 
> avoids the reconnect delay when DC pipes have died, thus avoids
> false negatives to be returned to clients, and to be cached.
> 
> Not a 100%, however. If there is really no DC available at the time
> of query, it will still happen. But it's an improvement compared
> to having these false negatives always after a connection died.

They are in my inbox queue of things to merge. I have to work on HP
printing bugs as my 'day' job priority, but I have not forgotten
these and will ensure they get added before 2.2.8.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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