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Is Frontport required for SAMBA 2.2.4?
> No.
That confirms my suspicions.
It is a porting library, containing the wrapper routines for building SAMBA 2.0.6 using almost completely unmodified UNIX source. Most of the modifications in SAMBA 2.0.6 were bug fixes that were not OpenVMS specific.To compile frontport in previous versions ... I don't know too much about the Frontport library.
Features unique to Frontport that are not in the other porting libraries are:
It implements fcntl() using RMS locking, so that programs using it will honor RMS locks in other programs, and other programs will honor locks on it.
It implements the crypt() function that returns an OpenVMS password Hash, when used with the getpwnam() call.
The SETUID() code is automatically linked when the image is installed if needed. It is also not required for non-privileged images.
If you have not read my porting notes for Samba 2.0.6 and for FRONTPORT, I would recommend it.
Both can be found on the OpenVMS Freeware 5.0 CD-ROM. An image of the CD-ROM set is available from a link at http://www.openvms.com.
decc*.olb is installed with the compiler. It is redistributable with an application provided the conditions in SYS$LIBRARY:DECC$CRTL.README.However, the sys$share:decc*.olb and .exe are part of VMS, and installed with the system, not with the DECC compiler
It may not work because of image ident mismatches.Is it possible to link SAMBA 2.2.4 on previous version of OpenVMS with new DECC RTL? Sure, why not?
The FRONTPORT library was intended to be able to work as far back as OpenVMS 5.5-2, however it is restricted to 7.0 and later.
It's purpose was to be used with more applications than just SAMBA.
I am almost to the point where I can start doing work again, and I have a number of fixes lined up for Frontport. One of the things that I want to implement is a compliance test suite for it's various features.
Carl Perkins has sent me code that looks like it will solve the OLE locking problems, and possibly a few other special cases.
I have also now learned how to get the locking to work with out changing the file modification dates.
I expect to be testing it initially against the 2.0.x stream of SAMBA so that I can fix some of the problems that I have learned about in the 2.0.6 version.
I have no timetable for this though, at my new job, I am spending about an hour a day commuting that I used to spend coding.
My personal development platforms have been upgraded both in CPU power and in storage capacity, so I may be able to track multiple streams.
-John
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