CVS update: samba/source/include

Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Tue Apr 11 02:15:30 GMT 2000


Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> I looked at the code. You did ignore it. Argghhhh :-).
> 
> What are we going to do about this. This is a rather
> big issue for people using Samba on an server that
> serves files both via NFS and SMB. The simplified version
> of this code has removed any chance of locking synchronisation
> between SMB and NFS on the same machine.
> 
> How are we going to fix this ? We cannot ship a Samba
> that has no locking sync between UNIX and SMB, too many
> customers and vendors depend on it.

Replying to my own reply to my own reply :-).

After a long conversation with Andrew we have a solution
we're both happy with. It does fd caching on *close* not
open in HEAD.

I volenteered to implement it :-). Now it's *my* problem :-).

Jeremy.

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