Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:00:32 -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: <7d6fde3d0806120400g188ac900t501b0d7519ac4c7d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0806120359g50e068e7q54e95da95e97932c@mail.gmail.com> 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> <7d6fde3d0806120359g50e068e7q54e95da95e97932c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > s/non-/possibly non-/g -Garrett
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