We messed up smbc_readdirplus :-(

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Tue Jan 8 05:38:52 UTC 2019


On Monday, 7 January 2019 23:20:30 CET Jeremy Allison wrote:
> Hi Puran,
> 
> I'm looking at Red Hat bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1569868
> 
> and realized we made a mistake in the
> implementation of smbc_readdirplus().
> 
> struct libsmb_file_info
> 
> should have been defined as a *superset*
> of the stat struct that smbc_stat
> returns, but currently it is missing
> the st_ino, st_dev, st_mode and st_blocks
> fields in order to be a superset of struct stat.
> 
> We actually *have* this data as returned
> from the SMB2_FIND_ID_BOTH_DIRECTORY_INFO
> call when enumerating the directory, but
> then throw it away when populating the
> struct libsmb_file_info struct.
> 
> I think the best way forward is to
> add a smbc_readdirplus_ex() call that
> returns a new 'struct libsmb_file_info_ex'
> struct that includes these extra fields.
> 
> Comments from other Samba Team members ?

I would name it smbc_readdirplus2(), than you can implement 3 if we still do 
something stupid (which I don't expect) but who knows :-)





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