[PATCH] CTDB configuration clean-ups

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Nov 5 23:16:52 UTC 2018


On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 10:05:10AM +1100, Amitay Isaacs via samba-technical wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:25 AM Martin Schwenke via samba-technical
> <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > This patch set drops ad hoc usage of CTDB_SOCKET and CTDB_PIDFILE
> > environment variables.  Instead, common path handling is now used
> > throughout the code.  As documented in tests/README, this
> > means that compile-time defaults are used unless CTDB_TEST_MODE and
> > CTDB_BASE are set, in which case locations relative to CTDB_BASE are
> > used.
> >
> > However, note that the first commit adds an exception for CTDB_SOCKET to
> > the common path handling.  This is used when the caller asks for the
> > socket path for "ctdbd" (and when CTDB_SOCKET is set).
> >
> > Please review and maybe push...
> 
> In the patch "ctdb-tests: Use path_socket() in dummy client",  there
> is no need to set default options.sockpath using
> talloc_autofree_context().
> Let the default be NULL.  If there is no socket argument, use existing
> mem_ctx to set up the default sockpath.

Oh yes ! I've managed to remove  all uses of talloc_autofree_context()
from Samba proper (although I have noticed it has crept back into:
lib/ldb/tests/ldb_kv_ops_test.c
I'll have to kill that :-).

Please do not use this function for *anything* !



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