wins.dat manipulation

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 22:58, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I need to edit wins.dat without restarting nmbd, so I wrote very little 
> patch to smbcontrol which add two messages:
>        dump-wins                     Dump wins database
>         load-wins                     Load wins database
> 
> 
> They are handled by
> 
> void nmbd_message_winsload(int msg_type, pid_t src, void *buf, size_t len)
> {
>   initialise_wins();
> }
> 
> void nmbd_message_winsdump(int msg_type, pid_t src, void *buf, size_t len)
> {
>   wins_write_database(True);
> }
> 
> 
> Is this correct or I broke something?

It is racy - what happens if some machine registers while you are
editing?

Andrew Bartlett

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