When creating a new file/directory, we need to obey the create mask/directory mask parameters.

[Matthieu Patou]

On 10/02/2012 09:26 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 12:20:36AM -0400, simo wrote:
>> Hi Jeremy,
>> I do not particularly like the approach of overwriting share parameters,
>> it is aesthetically unpleasing, but I see why it is easier to do.
>>
>> However I would like to ask to do semantic changes for 4.0 rather than
>> wait for 4.1 on different grounds. I think that what you want to do as
>> the 'proper' fix represent a change in semantics that would be difficult
>> to accept within a point release. I would rather have semantics change
>> on a .0 release so that enterprise distributions can more easily upgrade
>> to 4.1 file servers without breaking their promises.
>> A semantics change of this magnitude in a point release would make life
>> difficult for those of us that try to update samba code in enterprise
>> distros.
>>
>>>> That we are so close to a release is no excuse to put aside good
>>>> software engineering practice.  Indeed, it is every reason to apply that
>>>> rigour even more strongly.
>>> I'm happy to get feedback from the samba-technical
>>> list, but this will push back the next rc, by however
>>> long it takes to come to a consensus on this.
>>>
>>> That's fine by me, I'm in no hurry :-).
>> Although I am a bit in a hurry, unless the delay is measured in months
>> rather than a week or so I would gladly take the delay if the end result
>> is that all semantic changes happen in 4.0, even if more elegant code
>> fixes are delayed to 4.1
>> I just care about changing semantics / dropping legacy options in 4.0
>> rather than 4.1
> Ok. I'll run the poll on samba-technical, and prepare
> the code changes to remove those parameters (assuming
> no one is really using them, which actually I think
> is the case :-). After all, this bug has been there
> for quite a time.
>
> It shouldn't take more than a week or so, I'll ask
> Karolin to wait until this gets done before doing
> rc3.
Well if not ready for rc3 it can make it to rc4 ... we are not really 
limited by the number of RCs ...

Matthieu

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