[Samba] smbcontrol smbd ping also answered by nmbd and winbindd

[Michael Weiser]

Hello,

with samba-3.0.x an "smbcontrol smbd ping" was answered by all running
smbd processes. With samba-3.2.x it is now *also* answered by nmbd and
winbindd:

[root at cs00 ~]# smbcontrol -V
Version 3.2.5
[root at cs00 ~]# for i in `smbcontrol -t 1 winbindd ping | grep PONG | awk
'{ print $4}'` ; do pstree -p | grep $i ; done
        winbindd(29908) - winbindd(29909)
[root at cs00 ~]# for i in `smbcontrol -t 1 nmbd ping | grep PONG | awk '{
print $4}'` ; do pstree -p | grep $i ; done
        nmbd(29266)

[root at cs00 ~]# for i in `smbcontrol -t 1 smbd ping | grep PONG | awk '{
print $4}'` ; do pstree -p | grep $i ; done
        smbd(29275)---smbd(29277)
        winbindd(29908)---winbindd(29909)
        nmbd(29266)

(I'm using SerNet RPMs for RHEL4 on an RHEL4u4 machine.)

With 3.0.30 it looked like this:

l1-auto-du:~ # smbcontrol -V
Version 3.0.30-s+c
l1-auto-du:~ # for i in `smbcontrol -t 1 smbd ping | grep PONG | awk '{
print $4}'` ; do pstree -p | grep $i ; done
        |-smbd(4587)-+-smbd(4591)
        |            |-smbd(5681)
[...]
        |            `-smbd(6431)

Is this known behaviour? What can be done about it?

Thanks,
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