CVS update: samba/source/utils

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Thu Sep 27 13:00:53 EST 2001


Simo Sorce writes:

> seem Tim likes ghost code, I waded through rpc_client dismissed code for a
> while before discovering the new code was in lib/cli_... :-)

That's the old rpc client code.  Unfortunately it's rather
tightly coupled with pretty much everything else in Samba.  It's
a long term project of mine to move everything to the
libsmb/cli_* code.

It's pretty hard doing refactoring work considering not many
companies are interested in supporting it so there isn't much
time available to do it.  I believe small rewrites of things
within Samba are necessary to avoid bitrot in the future and make
Samba nicer to work with and to avoid bugs.  Tridge's NTSTATUS
stuff is a really good example of this.


Tim.

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