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

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:19:04AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:24:38PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> As Volker points out - both of these are internal to Samba.
> 
> I don't think OpenChange should be internal to Samba, so
> let's define how we can make it work as an external plugin,
> without needing access to Samba internals.

Don't get me wrong -- I don't want OpenChange inside Samba.
I'm just asking whether there's a reasonable way to carve
out the essential RPC pieces that *have* to link to Samba,
leaving the rest to OpenChange via some proper IPC
mechanism, such as a unix domain socket. I could imagine
that such a RPC layer inside Samba could be pretty static,
the development I would imagine would happen somewhere else.

Am I completely off? Julien?

Volker

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