[proof of concept] libwbclient.so

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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James Peach wrote:
> On 30/08/2007, Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> This brings up the question of whether or not to expose the SID
>> structure.  In an effort to maintain the LGPL status of the lib,
>> I stripped out most Samba data structures.  We can expose DOM_SID
>> and related parsing routines as long as people agree its ok.
>> That would make separating smbd & winbindd easier for me.
> 
> IMHO you need this for this interface to be useful
> from non-Samba apps.

ok.  I think I'll rewrite the basic SID<->string conversion
then rather than trying to cull it out of the GPL'd code base
and having the relicensing discussion.

>> Agreed.  That was just a placeholder rather than BOOL or int
>> for return values.  In general though, you agree with all
>> functions returning a library specific error code, correct?
> 
> yes, you need to know "unknown uid" and stuff like that

ok.  Then we need to define the error code set.  I'll come
back to this once I have the remaining calls converted.





cheers, jerry
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