Upgrading old VFS modules

[Paul Weaver]

Hi all,

I'm currently trying to update a few VFS modules to compile under a
later version of samba (3.0.26a, then on to 3.0.28a and 3.2 -- I dread
to consider samba 4 at this stage!). They were written for 3.0.23d, I
believe, expecting SMB_VFS_INTERFACE_VERSION 16. The latest interface,
as far as I can tell, is version 21  (unchanged since at least 3.0.26a)
(22 in 3.2)

These are transparent vfs modules. 

Now I'm happy about removing the connection_struct from each method
(v17), and move to using ntimes (v20), but I'm currently stuck on the
change that were brought in in version 18 -- the addition of a
file_struct to SMB_VFS_NEXT_OPEN

The simplest module basically renames a certain file name from "foo.txt"
to "foo_ip_user.txt", while presenting foo.txt to each client.

It does this by changing the "const char *path" in calls like NEXT_OPEN,
effectively :
if (is_a_bad_file($name)) =~ s/$name/$ip_$user_$name/;

It all seems to work when I pass through the files_struct and only
change the fname char, but I'm not 100% convinced that everything is
playing nice. Looking in smb.h, I can see a files_struct is a fairly
complicated struct, so changing it with fsp->fsp_name will probably
cause major problems. 

Is there a method to recreate a files_struct from an fname? Am I barking
up the wrong tree? 

(The modules are from http://ingex.sourceforge.net/MediaHarmony)

The simple module (media_harmony.c) simple presents a file per
machine/user, however there are more complex modules involving
files_struct structs, but before I tackle them I'd like to understand
the struct. Walk before running etc.

I hope this isn't a stupid or inappropriate question

Thanks


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