External Sync VFS module

[Ira Cooper]

So it spins up a thread per VFS op?

Just so I understand correctly? :)

-Ira

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Alex Austin <aaustin at nevelex.com> wrote:

> The daemon is not single threaded - it uses the threading mixin on socket
> to start a new thread on every connection. Given the local nature of the
> socket I would expect minimal overhead on socket creation and connection.
> Also, the protocol as I defined it applies meaning to an end of file
> condition.
> On Apr 27, 2016 7:46 PM, "Ira Cooper" <ira at wakeful.net> wrote:
>
>> Please, can we allocate a small amount of memory and not have this
>> connect and disconnect constantly... It just looks ugly.
>>
>> Also do we need a license at the top of the python daemon?
>>
>> Is the fact that this daemon is single threaded going to cause a problem?
>>
>> Just some thoughts looking at it,
>>
>> -Ira
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 04:51:51PM -0500, Alex Austin wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> > I've written a Samba VFS module to run an external file-sync program,
>>> and
>>> > would appreciate feedback.
>>>
>>> Currently you call the SMB_VFS_NEXT_XXX() function,
>>> but then always call the sendsyncmsg() without
>>> regard to whether the VFS call succeeded or failed.
>>>
>>> Don't you need to check the return first, and only
>>> call sendsyncmsg() on success ?
>>>
>>> Jeremy.
>>>
>>>
>>