[PATCH] doc: list all settable socket options in smb.conf manpage

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Jun 24 05:54:42 MDT 2015


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:15:35PM +0300, Uri Simchoni wrote:
> I thought I was missing a few useful socket options but then found out
> they were supported but not documented in the smb.conf manpage. This
> patch brings the code and the docs in sync (listing all
> potentially-supported options, irrespective of OS)

Looking at docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/socketoptions.xml I'm
a bit shocked we have SNDBUF=8192 as example...

Your patch change is obviously ok, but I'm completely unsure
about a good wording that people should in general keep
their hands off this. Tuning this is more black magic than
an exact science, and I don't know if we will be able to
ever properly document this. I'm not sure if we should not
just remove the potential options and refer to the OS
documentation. Maybe a testparm command could list the
available ones in the specific situation.

Volker

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