Sometimes I want to return an NTSTATUS from VFS functions that do not return an NTSTATUS ...

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 06:24:18AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Volker Lendecke
> <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 06:31:52PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> It sure would be nice if all of the VFS functions returned an NTSTATUS.
> >
> > What is your current case? Initially, the VFS was designed
> > around the posix style syscall interface. It has certainly
> > grown way beyond this.
> 
> I wanted to return NT_STATUS_PATH_NOT_COVERED from SMB_VFS_MKDIR ...

Ok, I think I need to understand the use case from an a bit
higher level. You want to DFS-redirect clients to other
servers when creating subdirectories?

Volker

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