Midnight Commander and SMB

[Andrew Tridgell]

> ugly/dangerous but addictive...

yeah, I know what you mean. It was a lot of fun getting it going :)

> after reading the PORTING document in the smbwrapper directory, I
> wanted to try it out with different protocols all at once

if you want multiple protocols then check out:

http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html
and
http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs

It would be cute to unify the smbwrapper stuff with the MC VFS work to
form a suite of user-space filesystems that can be loaded with
LD_PRELOAD. I discussed this a bit with Miklos, Pavel and Miguel when
I did the smbwrapper stuff but we haven't actually done anything to
make it happen. Damn thesis :(

> I'm not sure then who's bug this is :) for some reason,
> gnome-metadata.c:144 is calling mkdir() with a NULL pointer
> for the first argument. This doesn't cause a problem under
> normal circumstances (?)

That is a gnome bug, I bet it will segv under some OSes. To work
around it I've changed smbw_path() to return 0 in the case of a null
path. 

Thanks for tracking this down. Let me know if you find any more like
this!