On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:29:24PM +0300, Matthieu Patou wrote: > I'm sorry to put it through David L. Mills was wrong on this. > The patch never used a TCP socket but a unix socket. And since the > initial patch the code has been reworked to be wrapped in a test > that avoid trying to open the unix socket unless the requester has > been allowed to do so in the configuration.
I guess I'm missing something here. I'm just going to make a guess of how this works (if enabled): 1) We wait to get a UDP message 2) We send something to samba over the unix domain socket He thought this was over TCP, and that's beside the point, we need to wait until there is room in the kernel buffer. 3) We wait for a reply from samba, we do not process any other packages while waiting. 4) We send a message back 5) go to 1) And the restrict lines controls if we're going to send something to samba or not. An other alternative could be that we don't wait for packet back but that samba actually sends back the reply, doesn't make much difference. Anyway, in either case I don't see a problem with giving the admin the option of enabling it in the config file. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
