The Samba copy file call flow

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 12:36:49AM +0800, GongJinrong wrote:

>    I am learning the samba source code, it's really hard to understand the
> whole samba architecture, I don't find the detail call stack or call flow in
> samba when I do a file copying from win7 to a linux shared directory, I put
> some debug code to vfs_write_data() and real_write_file(), but I cannot see
> the debug print in the log file, can any nice guy tell me how the samba
> create file and write file data to disk, which low level file operation
> wrapper function will be called? Thanks a lot! I already spent a whole week,
> but got nothing! 

Sorry you're having so much trouble. You
can start from real_write_file() - but
notice it calls vfs_pwrite_data(),
not vfs_write_data().

Feel free to ask specific questions
on the list. Richard Sharpe has a
good guide to the Samba VFS you
might want to read.

Keep at it - the more you read
the code the more you'll find a treasure
trove of useful things :-). Talloc,
tevent, tdb, ctdb, pthreadpool, they're
all here :-).

Jeremy.