Improving performance of winbindd_list_groups

simo idra at samba.org
Fri Apr 25 18:50:23 GMT 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 17:51 -0700, Steven Danneman wrote:
> > Looks very good to me, thanks!
> 
> > Just a quick comment: In listgroups_recv you're using talloc_asprintf
> to paste the 
> > results together. These strings can get *very* long, so you might want
> to use 
> > talloc_asprintf_append_buffer, which does not use strlen for the
> existing string.
> 
> > Jerry, what do you think about this patch?
> 
> > Volker
> 
> Thanks Volker,
> 
> That's a good suggestion for even better performance.  Attached is an
> updated patch using talloc_asprintf_append_buffer().  I'm wasn't
> positive from the API description that the returned string will be NULL
> terminated, but in all my tests it seems to be.  Is this a correct
> assumption?

Looks good to me too.

Simo.

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