[PATCH] New VFS Interface
Rainer Link
rainer at openantivirus.org
Mon May 5 13:13:07 GMT 2003
Hi!
I've to admit I had no look at these patches yet.
> 3_0-vfs-core: Includes the core vfs interface changes.
> 1.) pass a vfs_handle_struct to each vfs operation
> 2.) store a function AND handle pointer for each operation
> in the vfs_ops struct.
> 3.) access the vfs_ops operations through macros:
> VFS_*, VFS_OPAQUE_*, VFS_NEXT_*
> 4.) remove 'vfs options' and 'vfs path' parameter
Sorry, but why is 'vfs path' removed? Seems I missed the reasoning for
that in the discussion (the removal of 'vfs options' is clear to me).
> 3_0-vfs-skel: Convert the skel example module:
> we now have a skel_tranparent and skel_opaque
> example
> and a configure.in/Makefile.in script to the skel
> modules
> witch can be used to 3rd party developer for there vfs modules
> it takes --with-samba-source for specifying the samba source
> tree path.
> --enable-developer and --enable-debug
> and --with-fhs
> are allowed like for the main samba configure
> the modules are installed to $(libdir)/vfs
Fine :-)
>
> vfs.xml: This is not a patch only a file...
> The Documentation for the new VFS interface
> for the Samba-Developer-Guide
> (This is not completely finished, but people can work with it)
Yup.
Thanks.
best regards,
Rainer Link
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