stdio in smbd

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:50:39AM +0100, Andy Polyakov wrote:
> 
> But whichever option is chosen, something ought to be done about stdio
> 256 limitation. The suggestion was to shuffle file descriptors returned
> by open(2) and creat(2) above 256 as depicted in
> http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-ntdom/1999-August/019940.html.
> 
> Should I make a suggestion by nominating a patch addressing both
> problems?

The problem was address in 3.x by the invention of the XFILE
library. Unfortunately it's a large enough change I don't
want to put it into 2.2.4 (but I could be persuaded I suppose).

Jeremy.