Remove unused stuff from winbindd

[simo]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:05 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> simo schrieb:
> > On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 09:30 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >>>> - WINBINDD_DUAL_SIDS2XIDS is disabled (#if 0) currently and I'd like to
> >>>>   remove it. Unused code is broken code and we can get it easily back
> >>>>   from the git history.
> >>> Except for this which I'd like to revive soon.
> >> What means soon days/weeks/month ?
> > 
> > Not sure yet.
> > 
> >> I'm currently converting the winbindd internal messaging to the NDR
> >> based protocol and I it's pointless to convert code that's not compiled
> >> at all.
> >>
> >> I agree the feature would be really usefull and we should readd it,
> >> the question is just, does that happens before or after 3.2.0.
> >> If you plan that for 3.2.0 then I'll leave it in otherwise
> >> I'd propose to reimplement it on top of the new NDR based protocol.
> >>
> >> I hope to get the NDR based stuff ready for 3.2.1.
> > 
> > I am still wondering why all this fuss with NDR, can we have some
> > performance tests before we switch ?
> 
> yes, I've already added a WINBIND-STRUCT-PING test (and a
> WINBIND-NDR-PING in a git branch).
> 
> And for client -> wb-parent -> client the struct based protocol is
> better as we just pass zero buffers, but for client-> wb-parent ->
> wb-child -> wb-parent -> client the NDR based one is faster.
> 
> I'll add more performance tests with other calls, when they're supported.

Thanks!
Glad to see you are making good progress.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <ssorce at redhat.com>