[Samba] The Recycled PIDs Fix

[Shyamsundar R]

Adding my thoughts to this.

Basically the smbsharedmodes manner of working, as of now, will not work for any other service/protocol provider to have shared locking semantics with SAMBA (unless they are GPLv3 themselves). As without registering the unique ID, any other service that wants to register locks in the SAMBA database for cross protocol locking to function, will not be feasible.

I would think the intention for having the shared locking database and the library (smbsharedmodes) would be to enable this functionality, across SAMBA and other file services that need file locking of this nature. Hence the ability to register the unique ID would also fall under this bucket of things to provide.

With this in mind, would it be possibly to (re)consider how the unique ID registration can be modified, so that other services can leverage the inherent locking that smbsharedmodes is providing to play nice in a SAMBA + other protocol serving needs environment?

Regards,
Shyam
 
>>> Manoj Dahal 1/25/2012 05:12 PM >>> 
Hi Volker,
 
An alternate thought came into mind.
Is it possible for you or someone from Samba to write a simpler serverid.c code without cluster support?
Which can possibly be bundled in a new library or in libsmbsharemodes.so under LGPL.
So that it will have lesser licensing issues. 
 
Thanks,
 
-Manoj

>>> Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE> 1/24/2012 7:06 PM >>>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 06:31:59AM -0700, Manoj Dahal wrote:
> Thanks a lot again. Is it possible for you to let us know
> the other authors/contributors
> of serverid.c ? So that we can obtain their approval as well.

You can find them with "git log serverid.c".

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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