[Samba] Samba and Terminal Server Whitepaper

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:25, Per Kjetil Grotnes wrote:
> Ok, I have had a preview of the document.  The Terminal Server issues
> are as far as I can see all covered except one.  This issue is related
> to a Solaris 32 bit application limitation. I do not know if HP-UX got
> this limitation aswell as our HP-UX samba userload is not high enough to
> reach this limitaion (if any).
> 
> Here is a Sun statement which describes the problem:
> 
> "For a 32-bit application, a stdio library FILE structure represents the
> underlying file descriptor as an unsigned char, limiting the range of
> fds
> which can be opened as FILE's to 0-255 inclusive. 

> Is this something which should be added in some sort of
> documentation/whitepaper?  

Samba 3.0 has a re-implementation of FILE, known as X_FILE, which does
not suffer from this limitation.  Unless of course some poor library is
using FILE...

Andrew Bartlett

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