A packet or streams layer for GENSEC/SASL?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sun Feb 5 19:19:45 GMT 2006


On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30:20PM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> Correction!
> 
> David Collier-Brown wrote:
> >   The same applies to low-level filesystem I/O as well,
>              ^- Insert "logic" here please, as I'm
>                 talking about what should be true, not
>                 what Samba 3 does, below.
> >with Samba being free to use quite large buffers
> >and the lower levels optionally shrinking them.
> >
> >   This is almost the exact opposite of how Samba
> >works now: unless you specify a large write size,
> >Samba uses small sized buffers whose size
> >correspond to what is desirable on the network,
> >and we hope that read(1) will coalesce them.

Can you explain further what you mean by this,
pointing to specific parts of the code please ?

Jeremy.


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