No smb_raw_search_next in smb_cliraw.h

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 11:04:55AM +0200, Stef Bon wrote:
> I've read the code of your fuse fs. That looks very good and advanced.
> I've been digging in the samba4 code to understand how the sync versus
> async handling works, and find it difficult to understand to be
> frankly.

Well, https://tevent.samba.org/tevent_request.html might be
a start to understanding the async Samba architecture. Once
you got your first steps done, it's actually pretty simple
to use.

> it is a "super" fuse fs, it's meant as manager of different backends
> (nfs using libnfs, smb using libsmbclient or other functions, overlay
> using custom functions).

Ok, your project is much broader than mine. However, using threads with
libraries that are not 100% designed for thread safety (and libsmbclient
definitely is not thread safe) is always scary business for me. To still
get concurrent request handling, I chose the async way of doing things. I
believe that libnfs (you're using Ronnie Sahlberg's libnfs?) also can
do async requests, and with the lowlevel fuse interface it should be
perfectly possible to achieve concurrency without threads.

Volker

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