CIFS extensions for UNIX

[John Newbigin]

I have done a bit more work on CIFS extensions for UNIX in smbfs.  I
have had some success and found some problems.

I have updated my patches to work against linux 2.4.18.  I have had some
problems with my patches failing fsx-linux.  For now I have reverted to
using smb_proc_trunc (which is a SMBwrite call).  This works but leads
me to beleive that there may be a problem with truncates using
SMB_SET_FILE_UNIX_BASIC.

I have a patch for SAMBA_2_2 which implements SMB_SIZE_NO_CHANGE and
SMB_TIME_NO_CHANGE.  I have only tested it under Linux i386 but the 
patch should be fine on other platforms.

The samba patch is here
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/samba.diff4

The kernel patch for linux 2.4.18 is here
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/smbfs.diff4

John.

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Information Technology Innovation Group
Swinburne University. Melbourne, Australia
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