removing connection_struct argument from Samba3 VFS

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:48:41PM +1000, James Peach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In the current VFS, there are 3 ways to get at the connection_struct for
> the current connection:
> 	through the VFS handle struct argument
> 	through the files_struct argument
> 	through it being explicitly passed as an argument
> 
> I have a patch to remove the explicit passing of connection_struct
> argument. Modules would use handle->conn (preferentially), though
> existing uses of fsp->conn would be unchanged. you would no longer need
> to pass the conn argument through the SMB_VFS_NEXT* macros.
> 
> Does anyone forsee any problems with this?

I'm ok with it but for HEAD, not 3.0 until we've
released 3.0.23. It's too late to change at the RC
stage. Remember to increment the VFS interface
revision number.

If you commit to head we'll move back after 3.0.23
ships.

Jeremy.