updated newidmap

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:59:54PM -0400, simo wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:45 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:46:23AM -0400, simo wrote:
> >  
> > > So if current design is ok, I'd propose to write down the new IDmap
> > > implementation so that it is equivalent with the current behavior and
> > > then when we are ok with it, discuss a bit further and eventually change
> > > the allocation rules to do implement the unified Unix ID mapping and
> > > change other code accordingly.
> > 
> > What about the following idea: ID mapping from its generic
> > task does not have anything to do with ID allocation.
> 
> Uhmm mapping often requires allocation, I don't see what do you mean.

No - "mapping" in this context means "lookup" from SID -> unixid
or vica versa.

Let's completely separate the "lookup" and "allocation" steps
of this please.

Jeremy.