Should we keep smbwrapper?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

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On 02/03/2012 05:25 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> What is the status of smbwrapper? I notice that you did a major rework
> on it in 2002. I've been unable to get it to work in 3.5 or even
> compile in master.
>
> I would also rather like to rid Samba of all the configure checks that
> this code entails, and an any case, it seems there are much better ways
> to create a virtual file system these days, with FUSE, gvfs or just
> using a cifs kernel mount.
>
> I'm also worried that it cannot be complete - it does not include the
> new dup3 for example, and probably many other calls. We have no
> testsuite for it either.
>
> Finally, I would like to see it removed so as to avoid giving others any
> strange ideas, as tridge's blog at http://blog.tridgell.net/?p=141 shows
> how, when this idea is taken to the extreme, this can go horribly,
> horribly wrong.
>
> Let me know what you think.
There is a fair amount of work involved in keeping this hack going, and
it's specific to just smb.

I think it would make more sense to provide a project like this on top
of e.g. gvfs. That way you don't get just support for smb://, but
support for other protocols as well, and you can e.g. share connections
across processes.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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