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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
