vfs module question

[James Peach]

On Jun 18, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Herb Lewis wrote:

> I'm confused by when to use SMB_VFS_LAYER_TRANSPARENT vs
> SMB_VFS_LAYER_OPAQUE.
>
> It seems to me from looking at the example modules, that only
> those functions that call SMB_VFS_NEXT_xxx should be listed as
> TRANSPARENT but that is not the case for most modules. Am I
> misunderstanding something here on the use of these flags?

nope, you're correct

>
> If all the function does is return results for the intended
> function and not make any calls to the next layer shouldn't
> it be OPAQUE?

They should be using OPAQUE. However, there's nothing to enforce this  
at runtime and the net result should be the same.

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