New param "source environment"?

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 03:30:26AM +0200, Rune Henssel wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have actually had thoughts along the same lines, a parameter that causes samba to read and process the output (to stdout) from a program, along the same lines as a webserver that reeds data from a CGI script. I just not through considering how to implement it in to samba. My initial thoughts are to use a special version of the handle_include include parameter handler function, phew... ;-) but I don't know how easy it is to do.
> 
> Thats my 10 cents.
> 
>     Rune!
>     rune at lyngbyes.dk
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Nicolas Williams 
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 8:31 PM
> Subject: New param "source environment"?
> 
[...]

Should be easy, since each line read can be passed directly to putenv()
(well, there's probably to trailing backslash processing to implement to
allow multi-line values).

If the value of the 'source environment' parameter ends with a '|' then
instead of opening the given path the value should be popen()'ed with
Samba reading from the output pipe.

I'll investigate more tomorrow. If it's easy enough to implement I may
be able to submit a patch.

Nico
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