[Samba] The Recycled PIDs Fix

Wed Jan 25 07:47:58 MST 2012

Hi Manoj,

> This is regarding your fix on recycled PIDs. I am an NCP developer from Novell and we use libsmbsharemodes library
> from Samba for Cross Protocols Locks between NCP, Samba and others. I have few queries regarding your fix.
>  
> In your fix, you have added a new field called 'unique_id' in the server_id structure 
> and we need to pass this in our call to samba share mode APIs  e.g. create_share_mode_entry().
>  
> Also, you have introduced server registration/de-registration which is associated with 'unqiue_id'. If we use these new APIs 
> then in which library from Samba do we need to link to?  Or without calling serverid_register() can we directly pass any 'unique_id'
> while calling to create_share_mode_entry() and in that case whether this and other share mode APIs will work properly?
>  
>  
> Looking forward to your answer,

Maybe we could invent a special value e.g. UINT64_MAX as "don't verify
this unique id".

metze

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