WINSEDIT.C

[Simo Sorce]

As tdb's are pretty fast in memory, may be it would be ok, to cut the
cache and use the tdb regularly in nmbd. So that changes are picked up
on the fly.

Simo.

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 10:08, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> At 17:51 01.05.2003 +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
> >On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:32:08AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >
> > > When the winsedit tool will be able to edit entries in the wins.tdb
> > > YOU MUST USE IT WHEN NMBD IS  *NOT* RUNNING!!!!
> > > otherwise the information will not be used and overwritten!!!
> > > Because of the current layout of nmbd.
> > > nmbd read's the wins.tdb on start and then holds the a list in memory.
> > > then it flushes all entries to a new wins.tdb file periodicly and delete
> > > the old file!!!
> >
> >How about a tdb message that reloads data from the wins.tdb file?
> >That would be better than placing restrictions on when the tool can be
> >run.
> 
> But we may lose some in memory changes...
> 
> I think the best way would be to not hold wins entries in a memory.
> 
> and when something changes directly make a change to the tdb.
> 
> 
> 
> metze
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