splitout of samba-debug (was: Re: [SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch master updated)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:44:48PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:24:38PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:12:05AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:53:36PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > 
> > > > If it does, it won't be able to write to the Samba log files. It would also
> > > 
> > > Why are they writing to the Samba log files ? This is a bug,
> > > not a feature.
> > 
> > OpenChange server is a plugin to Samba, it just provides another DCE/RPC
> > interface. It is no different from epmapper or winreg. It calls out to
> > various Samba functions, all of which write to the Samba logs.
> 
> To be honest, it's a bug then that the relevant parts of
> OpenChange are not part of Samba. Isn't it possible to
> create a pipe-interface to OpenChange with the appropriate
> auth blobs? If I remember correctly the Exchange protocol is
> actually very few DCERPC calls shipping yet another
> rpc-style blobs back and forth. Assuming this is right,
> can't we put the DCERPC piece into Samba proper and create a
> unix domain socket passing on the MAPI (??) blobs?

+1 seems the right design to me.