[RFC][WIP] cache-only name lookups in smbd

Uri Simchoni uri at samba.org
Wed Nov 30 11:31:12 UTC 2016


On 11/30/2016 01:02 PM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:41:49PM +0200, Uri Simchoni wrote:
>> In any case, I can see how relying on winbindd cache is a bad idea,
>> because it is being accessed in the child winbind process, and that can
>> be blocked by another request if the DC connection is flaky, so I really
>> haven't fixed anything with this patch. I'll try the id-mapping-like
>> approach (even though id-mapping still goes to winbind, but terminates
>> at the parent if cached).
> 
> If you look at smbd, we *should* look into gencache first before
> asking winbind. wbinfo is different of course.
> 
> Volker
> 
Yes, you are right, sorry for the extra noise.



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