unix_convert() and amount of stat() calls

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Sep 9 09:20:32 MDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:43:54AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> 
> You mean we only do this, correct?
> path\to\some\dir\with\files = OK

Err. Yes :-).

> +			if (posix_pathnames) {
> +				ret = SMB_VFS_LSTAT(conn, &parent_fname);
> +			} else {
> +				ret = SMB_VFS_STAT(conn, &parent_fname);
> +			}
> +			if (ret == 0) {
> +				status = check_for_dot_component(&parent_fname);
> +				if (!NT_STATUS_IS_OK(status)) {
> +					goto fail;
> +				}
> +
> +				start = smb_fname->base_name +
> +					strlen(parent_fname.base_name);
> +
> +				DEBUG(5,("unix_convert optimize2: name "
> +					"= %s, dirpath = %s, "
> +					"start = %s\n",
> +					smb_fname->base_name,
> +					dirpath,
> +					start));
> 
> Don't we need a 'goto done;' here?

*Probably*. I thought about adding that but didn't do so
explicitly as I need to think more about what the loop
below will do, and wasn't 100% sure there were no side
effects, so I thought it was less harmful to just go
through the code in the same way as before.

Jeremy.


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