Will these patches make it into 2.2.8?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jan 31 18:03:01 GMT 2003


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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 jra at dp.samba.org wrote:

> > as 2.2.8 seems to approach now, have the following patches been
> > considered for it?  They both don't add functionality, but rather
> > improve robustness, and are platform independent:
> > 
> >    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2002-December/041413.html
> > 
> > prevents winbindd from damaging its own idmap TDB on write failures
> > (filesystem full), by rolling back partial changes done by the failed
> > store of mapping.
> > 
> >    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2003-January/041897.html
> > 
> > avoids the reconnect delay when DC pipes have died, thus avoids
> > false negatives to be returned to clients, and to be cached.
> > 
> > Not a 100%, however. If there is really no DC available at the time
> > of query, it will still happen. But it's an improvement compared
> > to having these false negatives always after a connection died.
> 
> They are in my inbox queue of things to merge. I have to work on HP
> printing bugs as my 'day' job priority, but I have not forgotten
> these and will ensure they get added before 2.2.8

But probably not for 2.2.8pre1.


cheers, jerry
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