Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:24:15 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, charlie@cpsoftware.com Subject: Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ? Message-ID: <200810172024.16320.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20081017165519.GA26298@icarus.home.lan> References: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com> <20081017165519.GA26298@icarus.home.lan>
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On Friday 17 October 2008 18:55:19 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:13:45PM +0100, Charles Mason wrote: > > From what I have seen, both are perfectly capable and since its samba > > that will be doing most of the actual work its probably doesn't matter > > that much. Of course the next question if he goes with Linux, is which > > distro. Perhaps the question should be FreeBSD v Red Hat v Ubuntu v > > SUSE v latest flavour of the month. Since keeping it patched is > > essential, these sorts of admin features do matter. > > And did this bug ever get addressed? If so, when/what commit? > > http://www.vnode.ch/fixing_seekdir lib/libc/gen/readdir.c ---------------------------- revision 1.15 date: 2008/05/05 14:05:23; author: kib; state: Exp; lines: +7 -6 Do not read away the target directory entry when encountering deleted files after a seekdir(). The seekdir shall set the position for the next readdir operation. When the _readdir_unlocked() encounters deleted entry, dd_loc is already advanced. Continuing the loop leads to premature read of the target entry. Submitted by: Marc Balmer <mbalmer at openbsd org> Obtained from: OpenBSD MFC after: 2 weeks ---------------------------- -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.
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