WIP WSP patches

Ralph Böhme slow at samba.org
Tue Sep 20 18:38:29 UTC 2016


Hi Noel,

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 09:59:53AM +0100, Noel Power wrote:
> Gentle reminder...  and I also propose some alternatives below to help maybe
> move things along
> 
> On 29/07/16 17:20, Noel Power wrote:
> > Dear List,
> > 
> > As promised here is the current set of patches for (work in progress)
> > WSP (Windows Search protocol) It would be really great to be able to
> > have this as an experimental feature. There are alot patches involved,
> > some of them you have seen before but they never really got progressed.
> > I hope I can get your help to push on further with this -)
> [...]
> 
> Volker had objections around the rawpipe server loop parts going into the
> core rpc_server.c. Although I feel those changes aren't really intrusive and
> I believed I was using the suggested approach I attach here a version with
> the server loop implemented in the wsp daemon code itself so no rawpipe
> server infrastructure, the rawpipe client code still exists (but I could
> move this into the wsp daemon code too)  please see
> https://github.com/noelpower/samba/tree/WSP-WIP-NO_RAWPIPE
> 
> Additionally I thought a client only version might be an easier 'first
> step', with that in mind I additionally attach a secondary patch set that
> provides just the client side of the code + all the idl (and some supporting
> patches) please see
> https://github.com/noelpower/samba/tree/WSP-WIP-CLIENT-ONLY

currently looking at the rawpipe patch together with metze. Can you
share a network trace of a WSP search between a Windows client and
server?

We're thinking about adding an abtraction tstream_bindind_handle to
libcli/tstream_bindind_handle/ and there this question arose...

Cheerio!
-slow



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