s3-winbindd and binding handles

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed May 7 17:37:57 MDT 2014


On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 08:55 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 11:17 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > Hi Volker,
> > 
> > >> My current work in progress is here:
> > >> http://git.samba.org/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ad-dc-winbindd-WIP
> > >>
> > >> My next goal is to have winbindd answer the SamLogon protocol the
> > >> source4 auth system uses, and to extend that to include everything we
> > >> need, particularly for the RODC.  
> > > 
> > > To me this looks as if the parent winbind loops inside a
> > > nested event context processing the irpc request. This would
> > > block all other async requests that might be handled
> > > concurrently. Am I getting this right?
> > 
> > That depends on the content of winbindd/winbindd_update_rodc_dns.c,
> > but that is missing in the commit...
> > 
> > In general the IRPC handler can be implemented asnyc,
> > it has to set m->defer_reply = true;
> > 
> > See the wb_irpc_DsrUpdateReadOnlyServerDnsRecords() function in
> > source4/winbind/wb_irpc.c.
> 
> Correct, and that is what it does because of course it is a copy from
> there.  Then it passes it to the winbindd_dual child to actually
> implement.  Currently this is manual, but I'm going to make it forward
> using a more generic mechanism as I think that could be a very powerful
> pattern. 

I've updated the branch with the code. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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