create_conn_struct_tos() and connection re-use

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 02:58:48PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 15:35 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:15:56AM +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> > > 
> > > There's currently no way to do that, sorry.
> > > I guess you need to create something better,
> > > In python you need some kind of 'connection'.
> > 
> > Yep that's the right level of abstraction
> > if you need to keep a VFS connection struct
> > alive between different python calls.
> 
> Yes, that was my plan. 
> 
> > Indeed. This code was never designed to be
> > called from python, it's for the needs of
> > smbd and the DFS code. It's a miracle it
> > works from python at all :-).
> 
> A happy miracle :-)
> 
> I cribbed it all from vfstest BTW.

Yeah, vfstest was never meant to be a production-style
solution, just something hacked up to make VFS testing
work :-).