idea: Samba file processes

[Michel]

> This is like the pipe-fs found in mars-nwe, and it would be handy.
> Then again, I ain't checked the docs, and so don't know if it's
> already possible.  Anyone care to comment?
> 

Ofcourse, unix filesystems support named pipes (with mkfifo) that 
could also simulate this behaviour. Unfortunately, the clients do not
handle this very well (neither the DOS/Windows, NOR samba's own
smbclient!). I believe this may actually be a problem in the
smbd code?
If it would work, one could simply have an (always running) process 
on the unix host read/write to the pipe.
Nevertheless, my earlier comment about preexex/postexec could also
probably accomplish lots of what people would want to do.

Michel.