NTSTATUS trick for NTTIME?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Mar 8 05:14:02 MST 2011


On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:29:01AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:28:31AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > It would be good to understand exactly how big a change this would be,
> > and how many bugs we have had in this area in the past.  The NTSTATUS
> > trick is quite disruptive to the code - but was the right thing to do at
> > the time when NTSTATUS was new and this bug occurred often.  
> 
> The last one was for example Bug 7066, fixed with c6b5136.
> My problem is that I don't dare touching the passdb
> interface to change it to NTTIME without this protection.
> Others are much more careful than I am, so for others this
> is not a problem. We can certainly leave the pdb interface
> at unix times forever, we have lived with it for quite a
> while. And, this will be mainly a Samba3 issue that can be
> done step by step. Samba4 does not have to adopt this.

I'm prefer this change (to move to a struct for NTTIME).
I think it will help us fix and find bugs.

+1 from me.

Jeremy.


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