A packet or streams layer for GENSEC/SASL?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Feb 7 16:26:26 GMT 2006


On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:34:44AM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >> I suspect this would lead to a path where the write
> >>cache code falls out of use and can be deprecated, and
> >
> >
> >Nope, because as soon as Samba uses a different read/write
> >size than the client requested then you've re-invented the
> >(working) write cache code.
> 
> 	I was suspecting you might end up with
> 	just one cache module, being used for
> 	multiple purposes. And in the long run,
> 	the existing cache code could use
> 	some simplification.

A patch is welcome.... :-). But be careful, here be dragons...
That code has had some careful tweaks added to it by people
who depended on it :-).

Jeremy.


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