svn commit: samba r12877 - in branches/SAMBA_3_0/source: . include locking smbd

James Peach jpeach at samba.org
Fri Jan 13 03:45:06 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:17 +0000, jra at samba.org wrote:
> Author: jra
> Date: 2006-01-12 22:17:54 +0000 (Thu, 12 Jan 2006)
> New Revision: 12877
> 
> WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba&rev=12877
> 
> Log:
> Stop passing structs around in smb messages, instead
> always linearize into little-endian. Should fix all
> Solaris issues with this, plus provide a cleaner base
> moving forward for cluster-aware Samba where smbd's
> can communicate across different compilers/architectures
> (eventually these message will have to go cross-machine).

IIRC, I've suggested this before, but I still think that using XDR
encoding simplifies passing these messages around a lot. The XDR library
is available everywhere, so I don't think this is a portability issue.

-- 
James Peach | jpeach at samba.org



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