svn commit: samba r22202 - in branches/SAMBA_3_0/source/nsswitch: .

[James Peach]

On 12/04/2007, at 2:14 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:06:45PM -0700, James Peach wrote:
>>
>> On 12/04/2007, at 12:16 PM, jra at samba.org wrote:
>>
>>> Author: jra
>>> Date: 2007-04-12 19:16:29 +0000 (Thu, 12 Apr 2007)
>>> New Revision: 22202
>>>
>>> WebSVN:
>>> http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi? 
>>> view=rev&root=samba&rev=22202
>>>
>>> Log:
>>> Volker is clever :-). Use TDB_NOMMAP to prevent any wild pointer
>>> problems when validating the winbindd cache. Wish I'd have
>>> thought of that.
>>
>> Does this mean that you can also get rid of the setjump and special
>> signal handlers?
>
> Probably, although it's safer to leave them.
>
>> Also, why does this specially apply to winbindd_cache.tdb? Is that
>> particularly prone to corruption?
>
> Sort of - if people just pull the plug on their machines (as
> happens with laptops).

So how does this make winbindd corrupt its TDB? It's not as though  
anyone is SIGKILL'ing it ... right?

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James Peach | jpeach at samba.org