Plugin API questions

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 14:35, Luke Howard wrote:
> 
> First, I can't seem to build HEAD lately:
> 
> Compiling smbd/vfs.c
> smbd/vfs.c: In function `vfs_init_custom':
> smbd/vfs.c:263: `static_init_vfs' undeclared (first use in this function)
> smbd/vfs.c:263: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> smbd/vfs.c:263: for each function it appears in.)
> make: *** [smbd/vfs.o] Error 1

You need to re-run autogen.sh, reconfigure and recompile...

> Secondly, is the following function all that is necessary to upgrade an
> authentication plugin to use the new plugin API? Has the configuration
> directives changed for loading authentication plugins?

My understanding is that is has not.  

> /* old plugin API initialization prototype */
> NTSTATUS auth_init(struct auth_context *auth_context, const char *param, auth_methods **auth_method);
this can now be static

> 
> int auth_paula_init(void)
> {
> 	return smb_register_auth("paula", auth_init, AUTH_INTERFACE_VERSION);
> }

I think that's right, for a built in plugin.  For a module I think the
name of that function changes to init_module().  See 'preload modules'
to load it before the main server fork().

Andrew Bartlett

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