Re: Max open files....

Christopher R. Hertel (crh@NTS.Umn.EDU)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:28:14 -0500 (CDT)

From:	"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@NTS.Umn.EDU>
Message-Id: <199804201628.LAA11660@unet.unet.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Max open files....
To:	tridge@samba.anu.edu.au
Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:28:14 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <19980420151024Z12631025-456+10246@samba.anu.edu.au> from "Andrew Tridgell" at Apr 21, 98 01:13:54 am

I'll take a look. I'd like to get do the database upgrade work on nmbd
before I take on anything else that's 'large', but I'll see what I can
do. It sort of sounds like my type of thing. ;)

Chris -)-----

>
> > Lemme know what you'd like to do.
>
> Thanks, but the problem isn't the file idling API (we already have
> some code I can re-use from the directory idling) it's changing all
> the places that currently depend on the Files[] array and the 1-1
> mapping of fnum to Files[] indexes. Some fairly hairy code depends on
> that stuff.
>
> The first thing will be to abstract out Files[] and fnum. After that
> adding file idling is a cinch :-)
>
> Cheers, Andrew
>

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Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
crh@nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services