CVS update: samba/source/auth

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Mon Apr 15 00:49:30 EST 2002


If I remember it correctly we are supposed to move to unicode string
internally, isn't it a good thing to start coding with unicode? We will
never make the switch if we do not start to change some code IMO.

On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 12:07, 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?
> 
> 
> Tim.
> 
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