MAX_OPEN_FILES etc

[Jeremy Allison]

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> following on from Jeremy's EM about fixing some code with respect to
> MAX_OPEN_FILES and MAX_FNUMS and MAX_OPEN_DIRECTORIES, I have been working
> on changing Samba so that max open files and max open directories can be
> specified in smb.conf.
> 
> It is now clear to me (which it wasn't in the past) that I will need
> variables:
> 
>    max_open_files

Yes.

>    max_open_directories

Maybe (depends if you want the user to mess with this,
it's only used internally right now).

>    max_fnums (perhaps)
> 

No. max_fnums = max_open_files + max_open_directories.
It cannot independently vary.

> I will also have to modify all code that accesses MAX_OPEN_FILES and
> MAX_OPEN_DIRECTORIES to access the apropriate (extern) variable ...
> 

Yep.

> Any comments?
> 

Looks good to me (with the comments above) - go for it !

Cheers,

	Jeremy.


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