proposed list of parameter to remove in 3.0.23

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri May 12 14:49:16 GMT 2006


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TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:

>> I think these two parameters (if anyone wanted them) would
>> be better implemented as a VFS module.  I'd like to get the
>> out of the core code.  Out of curiousity, what do you
>> them for?  You're the first person I've ever run across
>> that admitted to using them.
> 
> I used them for testing.
> 
> Run a test program on Windows PC, examine a test and then copy a
> shell-script to change smb.conf and restart samba with the name
> specified by "magic script" into a Samba share.
> 
> Then smb.conf is automatically changed and the test program 
> examine another test...

Interesting.  I'm not sure if this is worth keeping them in
the production code though.  Again, this seems more like
something that should be in a vfs_magic_script.so lib.
Of course then someone has to implement that lib.  Any volunteers?


jerry



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