Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:59:59 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Harti Brandt" <harti@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving from smbfs to cifs Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0806120359g50e068e7q54e95da95e97932c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080611174933.C66190@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> References: <7d6fde3d0806091102k62637099qbaa73ca4d38ff64c@mail.gmail.com> <e7db6d980806091319n1caef691k2b0dbf295d796311@mail.gmail.com> <484DB796.4030204@mawer.org> <20080611022502.3d6c01d5.stas@FreeBSD.org> <484F5726.9050300@mawer.org> <484F6999.4080001@mawer.org> <20080611163433.H40102@fledge.watson.org> <20080611174933.C66190@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de>
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Robert Watson wrote: > > RW> > RW>On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Antony Mawer wrote: > RW> > RW>> > I stumbled across patches available by R. Imura which are a work todays > RW>> > adding Unicode support to smbfs, and from what I gather are derived from > RW>> > changes in Darwin (Mac OS X) smbfs: > RW>> > > RW>> > http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/ > RW>> > > RW>> > > RW>> > There are potentially other improvements available from the Darwin SMBFS > RW>> > implementation, available here: > RW>> > > RW>> > http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.2/ > RW>> > http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/smb-348.1.tar.gz > RW>> > RW>> Probably another reference worth looking at: > RW>> > RW>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/ > RW> > RW>Oh, interesting -- I didn't realize that OpenSolaris had picked up our smbfs > RW>implementation also. I spent some time about six months ago comparing the > RW>FreeBSD and FreeBSD-derived Mac OS X implementations of smbfs, and the > RW>differences were almost all syntactic. In particular, their mbuf interfaces > RW>have all been renamed as part of the KPI work; they have also added some > RW>crypto/kerberos parts that we don't have. It would be interesting to do a > RW>similar comparison of with the OpenSolaris version. > > The Kerberos support would be a big win... I remember that I had a look at > the code, but I have not clue with Kerberos programming so I gave up very > fast :-( > > harti > I'll look at the darwin code when I get back sometime next week, and then see what the Solaris code would require. I just want to get the buggy smbfs out of the kernel so we don't have something that's a security risk / non-MPSAFE. -Garrett
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