On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 6:29 AM +0930 7/6/02, Richard Sharpe wrote: > >Hmmm, I think that the major part of the problem there was that, > >for what ever reason, Barry Feigenbaum of IBM, declined to add > >a Change Working Directory or Set Working Diretory command to > >the SMB protocol. > > > >Thus, at least for the SMB protocol, and maybe generally, Windows > >clients must always send the full pathname for every file they > >want, unless it happens to be at the root of the share. > > Could the unix process for samba fake that? Keep track of the > most recently used directory, and when a new request comes in > split it into "directory" plus "filename", and if the directory > is the same as the previous one, then just access the filename. > If the directory is different, try to do a chdir() to the new > directory, and if that succeeds then save that as the "previous" > directory.
Yes it can do that, and should do that. I will have to check what Samba does. I know I proposed adding a path cache to smbclient/smbtar so that it could avoid repeatedly, and even a cache of one path could make a big difference. > Or is that more trouble than it's worth? No, I think it is worth a lot. I suspect Samba already does that. There is just so much code to look at. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
