libmsrpc for Samba 3

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Chris Nicholls wrote:
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| I considered something like that but it seems to me
| like using an  initialize_operation() function is adding
| to complexity, there is a  function just to prepare values
| for the second function call. Also, if something like
| this were used I would prefer a function like
| get_some_control_block() that would also allocate
| memory for such a  structure and return it.  I guess in
| my mind that just seems like it accomplishes more.

That's pretty much what the make_q_XXX() functions do
in Samba 3.  The one thing to remember in this discussion
is that user's will work with char* and somewhere that
string must getting converted to wire format (UNISTR[234]).
Samba 4 autogenerates the code to do this.  We do not in
the 3 branch.

So you would have to design another layer of application
structures on top of include/rpc_*.h  This is really the
crux of the library work (that and actually creating the
*.so file).





cheers, jerry
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