Knowing in the VFS when we are dealing with different SMB requests ...

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:48:03AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 09:47:06AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > We think that we would like to know in our VFS when Samba is
> > processing a different SMB than the last one. This will allow us to
> > throw away any cached info.
> > 
> > It seems that there are two ways to do this:
> > 
> > 1. Introduce a VFS function saying something like Next Request and its
> > MID is XXX, or,
> > 
> > 2. Pass the MID into each VFS call somehow ...
> > 
> > The problem I have with the first approach is that AIO and tevent has
> > the potential to make it impossible to reliably know which request you
> > are dealing with.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> I would like to know what exact information it is that you
> want to throw away. SMB requests are usually very, very
> short-lived and caching, so I am surprised there is real

Gna. Remove the /and caching/ ...

Volker

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