On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:37:27PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:33:29PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
I'm confused; why would a userspace application need to be able to request this behavior?
This isn't my proposal Ted, I'm just commenting on it :-).
Ah, sorry, I thought was coming from the Samba team. :-)
Well it sort of is, as the people working on cifsfs are also Samba Team members, but this isn't an official "Samba" thing, as I can't see exactly what apps would want this either (other than Samba smbd running on top of smbd, re-exporting a cifsfs share, pointing to a Samba server, running on a... ERROR STACK OVERFLOW :-).
Hmm... I see wine-devel is cc'ed; is this coming from the Wine team, wanting to do SMB paravirtualization? It would be useful if the commit description described how these flags are intended to be used....
Indeed :-).
Jeremy.