New configuration backends for Samba 3 SoC project

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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simo wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:33 -0300, Avi Alkalay wrote:
>> Some time ago I started to look inside Samba's source to see how to
>> inject the Elektra patch.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> This is what I mean when I say Samba has a spread configuration system.
>>
>> I don't know why it is so spread and being recalled so many times. I
>> guess maybe because Samba's programs want to be aware of configuration
>> changes. If so, the Elektra way of doing that is to setup some
>> notifications with callbacks that will retrieve the modifications, and
>> modify the internal C structs.
> 
> Some of the parameters need to be tracked for changes some others need
> not.

The lp_XXX() is more from convience I think.  Remember that smb.conf is
parsed into memory and we only reload if the mtime changes.  So
repeatedly calling lp_foo() will not change unless the config
file is reparsed.





cheers, jerry
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