Don't generate an interface table for nfs4acls.idl

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Oct 27 03:53:39 UTC 2017


On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 09:53 +0200, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:19:42PM +0000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-10-19 at 22:57 +0200, Ralph Böhme via samba-technical
> > wrote:
> > > Nobody uses the function nfs4acl_test.
> > 
> > The reason why these functions are created is to allow manual
> > parsing
> > of the blobs with ndrdump.  This is helpful during development. 
> > 
> > It would be a good idea to separate the need to parse blobs from
> > full
> > interface generation if we wish to continue down this track. 
> 
> oh, sorry for fogetting about that. Now that you mention it I
> remember
> struggling with exactly this issue on mdssvc.idl.
> 
> Shall we revert? Or just leave it as it and bring it back when
> needed?

I know it is a dirty word in Samba, but a revert might be best until
someone writes a 'struct' mode for ndrdump.

And a comment to avoid future confusion. 

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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