Proposal: libsmbclient API

Andreas Schneider mail at cynapses.org
Thu Mar 26 15:53:32 GMT 2009


On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:39:46 Derrell Lipman wrote:
> Well the samba3 portion of master isn't changing, and needs to retain
> backwards compatibility. I think we can solve all of these issues, though,
> by having this be the beginnings of a samba4 libsmbclient. A libsmbclient
> for samba4 will have a much cleaner interface to the internals, due to the
> benefit of 20-20-hindsight of some of the troubles in samba3 leading
> towards a very clean interface design from the outset.  It can, as well,
> address (remove!) many of the historical dependencies that samba3's
> libsmbclient has had to live with.

So, what's the plan for libsmbclient now? Leave how it is, add setter and 
getter for errno and try to make it thread safe the way it is (if possible)?

Where should we start?


	-- andreas
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