Registry.tdb and tdb functionality document

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Aravinda Guzzar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see a difference in the way the registry.tdb is handled in the samba
> code.
> 
> 
> While all the permanent TDBs viz. gencache.tdb, group_mapping.tdb,
> account_policy.tdb, share_info.tdb, secrets.tdb.
> schannel_store.tdb etc. are opend with O_RDWR|O_CREAT flags,
> registry.tdb is
> uniquely been tried to open first with O_RDWR flag and if fails then tried
> with O_RDWR|O_CREAT flag.

Mostly historical.  The registry tdb was not considered
to be critical initially as the main data was stored in other
tdb files.  This is not necessarily true any more but the code
has not been changed to match expectations.




cheers, jerry
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