removing connection_struct argument from Samba3 VFS

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon May 29 19:12:49 GMT 2006


On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:26:33PM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
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> Jeremy Allison schrieb:
> > On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:48:41PM +1000, James Peach wrote:
> >> 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.
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> The only thing I worry about is that external VFS modules need a lot of
> ifdef's in there code if they want to compile against different samba
> versions...

Yeah I know - it's the same argument used for a stable
ABI in the Linux kernel....

We need to keep improving it though.

Jeremy.


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