On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:42 AM, Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom Talpey <ttalpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I think it's a mistake to name anything beginning with "cifs" in >> today's world. I suggest "smbfileinfo". But isn't this really just >> an extended version of stat(1)? Would a name in line with that >> usage be more appropriate? > > Yes cifsstat or smbstat sounds a lot better indeed. > > As for cifs vs smb, unfortunately "cifs" is used *everywhere* in the > cifs-utils package. The name, the utilities name, the man pages, > configure options, etc. I've tried to use SMB in the man page but it > makes the package a bit inconsistent. Ideally we should rename > everything but that's going to break a lot of stuff downstream. smbstat would be really nice. And have it implement all the info levels that QUERY_INFO supports. > > Cheers, > -- > Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team > GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97 8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3 > SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
