CVS update: samba/source/sam

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sun Jun 29 06:51:04 EST 2003


On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:36:39PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> Jeremy,
> can you explain me why you change the name local_map to cache_map ??
> I completely disagree on the name change.
> 
> The local map is not a cache, for standalone boxes it is the
> authoritative mapping database, wipe it out and you will be in trouble
> (same will be for future winbindd_pdc).
> It also contains group mappings, that you will probably not found
> through remote backend (except for a centralized idmap).
> 
> Calling it cache is misleading imho.

I don't want to change anything now unless it's a bug.
I wanted to make this code very clear to new people as
it screwed me over when first reading it.

Jeremy.



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