se-samba

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

hiya,

if you want to drastically cut down the amount of time you take,
look at the cliffs project.

you will find that there is a very simple IDL generator (written
in awk by andrew) which was used to auto-generated _stacks_ of code
which you would be completely mad to recreate manually.

the IDL file itself is taken DIRECTLY from the cifs specification
(text version) and i MEAN directly: i massaged it a bit and
added some grungy bits and ran the compiler.

if you need a change of / alternative / dual license on any
of the bits that i am responsible for, let me know.

l.


On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:00:48PM -0400, Matthew Keller wrote:
> I started to write an SMB protocol plugin for Apache2. Then I got
> distracted by a paying project and haven't been back at it. I spent many
> hours planning out the requirements and it all looked very very doable.
> My design had a separate "nmbd"-esque daemon just to deal with the
> persistent LAN netbios-naming crap, but the "smbd"-esque part appeared
> to be 100-160 manhours based on my Gantt. Of course, I could've grossly
> underestimated it, but I don't think so. I'll probably hack back at it
> sometime this summer. I really like the Apache2 infrastructure, and
> after doing a couple toy protocols, wanted to jump in over my head. :) 
> 
> My $0.02.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 17:12, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > btw if anyone is concerned about the speed of a multi-processed
> > arrangement (one daemon per service, where services equals
> > double-digits as in samba-tng) then of course all you need
> > to do to fix the fork() issue is to use the same approach as
> > apache(1&2): have a pool of pre-forked processes on tap.
> > 
> > in fact i am surprised that 1) smbd has not had such code added
> > to it already 2) that serious consideration has not been given
> > to using the new apache2 framework: careful analysis of libapr
> > shows significant code duplication and similarity in key areas.
> > 
> > l.
> > 
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