[PATCH] Deprecate 'bind interfaces only' parameter

James Peach jpeach at samba.org
Fri Dec 9 05:45:22 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:30 +1100, Tim Potter wrote:
> Is there really any need for two parameters to manage which interfaces
> Samba is to operate on?  The attached patch deprecates the 'bind
> interfaces only' parameter which doesn't seem to do very much at all
> really.
> 
> The only problem I can see is that setting 'bind interfaces only = no'
> and having an interfaces line will be broken, but then it's broken now
> anyway.  It will just be broken differently.

This looks god to me. I had occasion to poke around in this code
recently and the split between these two parameters struck me as quite
odd. I think coalescing them is one less thing to trip over, which is
good. 

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James Peach | jpeach at samba.org



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