[SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch master updated

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Dec 16 14:05:06 MST 2013


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 03:56:16PM -0500, Simo wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 10:34 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 01:20:04PM +0100, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> > > 
> > > commit 5baa7402ba8eebd9b2ddc6b259ae9bb2852b4bb1
> > > Author: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
> > > Date:   Fri Dec 6 14:34:05 2013 +0000
> > > 
> > >     smbd: Implement and use full_path_tos
> > >     
> > >     Yes, this looks like a hack, but talloc_asprintf does show up high in
> > >     profiles called from these routines
> > >     
> > >     Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
> > >     Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
> > 
> > Hahaha ! Coming this summer to a cinema near you :
> > 
> > "Samba 4 - Revenge of the pstrings" :-) :-).
> 
> Uhm, given this string is never passed anywhere and you want to use the
> stack, why didn't you simply use alloca() + snprintf() ?
> 
> That would seem a lot simpler and as effective to me, am I missing
> something ?

I don't think alloca is as portable as the code
Volker wrote.


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