Modifying Samba3 vfs opendir()

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Jun 27 02:42:37 GMT 2005


On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:32:21AM +1000, James Peach wrote:

> I'd prefer that this be a new VFS call, rather than an extension to an
> existing one. Pushing the two different semantics into the same call
> seems like a recipe for confusion. Also, it weakens the correlation
> between VFS call and system calls, which will make performance
> measurement more difficult.

The problem is it can't be a new VFS call, as once the "new" call is in
place we would never call the "old" one anymore. It's functionally 
equivalent to just updating the old call (which is what I did in the
source). Sorry.

Jeremy.


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