Share ignore and storing % tokens in a tdb

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 08:54:13AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 08:35:38AM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> > Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > | Actually, that would be useful: a share ignore parameter. It's value
> > | might be a % token followed by a value such that if it does not
> > match
> > | the token's value the share would be ignored.
> > 
> > 	Cool!  "ignore if = %m bozotron" would be read
> > 	"ignore this share if %m is bozotron", much like
> > 	the perl idiom. The cost would be a parser change
> > 	to skip forward to the beginning of the next section
> > 	and a loadparms.c change to invalidate the current 
> > 	section and clean up any data structures.
> 
> This would be nice... It would cut down on the need for includes.

Actually, there should be a comparison operator there:

	ignore if = %m == bozotron

Or, more generalized, though also requiring more changes:

	condition = if %m == bozotron then ignore-share

There. Does that make smb.conf programmable enough? :) :)

Nico
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