CVS update: samba/source/auth

Rafal Szczesniak mimir at diament.ists.pwr.wroc.pl
Sun Apr 14 21:36:10 EST 2002


On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Tim Potter wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:44:13AM -0700, abartlet at samba.org wrote:
> 
> > This patch has been tested with both NT4 and rpcclient/wbinfo, and adds
> > some extra functionality to talloc and rpc_parse to allow it to deal with
> > already unicode strings.
> 
> I don't see why the unicode strings are stored in the tdb.  Everywhere
> else in Samba they are converted to char * almost immediately after
> coming off the wire.  Is it really necessary to hold the unicode
> value anywhere in Samba except for the rpc_parse routines?

If I remember well, somebody said that 3.0 release will use unicode
internally. However, correct me if I'm wrong or missed something
important. Besides, it's easier and more comfortable to write the rpc
functions.


cheers,
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