gvfs and (lib)smbclient (resend)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 04:45:23PM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> 
> Well I realise in the open source world you generally don't get what you
> want without doing the work for it, so I'm probing for ideas and
> feedback from the community rather than just defining an API that I
> expect someone to implement.  What I mentioned previously was just the
> shortcomings of using libsmbclient from gvfs's point-of-view.  Having an
> API that maps closely to the GIO API [1] would be useful from my point
> of view but not necessarily to the community at large.  Having an API
> that abstracts the details of the SMB2 protocol but still exposes most
> of its functionality could be useful to both parties.
> 
> [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GFile.html

OK, I'm happy to be the point person working
with you on this.

First things first - we should get the "enable
POSIX extensions" code into the tree which will
allow you (at least over SMB1) to treat Samba
as a more normal POSIX share (permissions, POSIX
ACLs etc.).

After that we'll start getting creative about
looking into the SMB2 work, and deciding how
we can do callbacks for the async stuff gvfs
wants.

Problem is libsmbclient isn't yet thread-safe
(although help making it so would be appreciated
and is probably less hard than we think - most
things are hung off an isolated context struct
and we'd just have to add mutexes around the
thread-unsafe name lookup calls and some other
places).

Let's make this happen !

Jeremy.