[Samba] [ANNOUNCE] Samba 3.2.0pre3

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Karolin Seeger <ks at sernet.de> wrote:
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>>  Release Announcements
>>  =====================
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>>  This is the third preview release of Samba 3.2.0.  This is *not*
>>  intended for production environments and is designed for testing
>>  purposes only.  Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
>>  system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
>>
> <snip>
> 
>>  Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
>>
>>   File Serving:
>>   o Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC
>>     interfaces.
>>   o Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on
>>     filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
> 
> Can someone explain that some more.  Is that a tightening or loosing
> of the restriction?
> Or point me do a discussion about how it was decided to do this?

It's simply a removal of static path buffers (char[1024])
to dynamically allocated ones.





jerry
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