Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:30:43 +0100 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: NCPFS and brittle connections |
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Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Nobody is working on it (at least to my knowledge), and to me it is > feature - it always worked this way, like smbfs did back in the past - > if you send signal 9 to process using mount point, and there is some > transaction in progress, nobody can correctly finish that transaction > anymore. Fixing it would require non-trivial amount of code, and > given that NCP itself is more or less dead protocol I do not feel that > it is necessary. >
Someone needs to tell our customers then so they'll stop using it. :)
> If you want to fix it, feel free. Culprit is RQ_INPROGRESS handling > in ncp_abort_request - it just aborts whole connection so it does not > have to provide temporary buffers and special handling for reply - as > buffers currently specified as reply buffers are owned by caller, so > after aborting request you cannot use them anymore.
Do you have any pointers to how it was solved with smbfs? Relevant patches perhaps? Provided a similar solution can be applied here.
Rgds
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