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Look into talloc, used inside Samba (and other FLOSS projects like sssd). Exactly this.

Tests. All changes must have tests. If they're generating the code, they can generate the tests too.

Fantastic summary of the early days by tridge !

Over 20+ years in the design and making. Amazing to see it finally rolled out in production ! NFS shuffles one step closer to the grave :-).

I had 4 SONOS connect devices (S1 app only) doing exactly this. I recently (last month) replaced them all with BlueSound node nano devices. They do exactly what you require - point…

The Samba project has secured significant funding (€688,800.00) from the German Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to advance the project. The investment was successfully applied for by Ser…

Cracks in the Ice: Why a 'frozen' distribution Linux kernel isn't the safest choice for security: https://ciq.com/blog/why-a-frozen-linux-kernel-isnt-the-safe... This is an executi…

Amen to this. I recall the original Western Digital WD TV Media Player. https://www.cnet.com/reviews/western-digital-wd-tv-media-pla... Used to attach to a local NAS. Swiftly knee-…

Samba doesn't use the passwords or users in /etc/passwd directly. You have to map any SMB users into /etc/passwd users in Sambas database. Without that mapping they don't exist for…

My recollection of that time (I was at SGI when Belluzzo was there). https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremyallison_wither-google-f...

The FSF doesn't even enforce the license for its own projects, let alone any random GPL project. Please don't give people false ideas.

No one in these days of cyber attacks should be shipping unknown third party dependencies. How could you fix unknown dependencies in case of severe CVE's in them ? Unknown third pa…

My take on this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremyallison_wither-google-f... Wither Google ? FYI. This is my recollection of events, but it's been twenty or so years now, so if…

This is very true. As an exmaple, Ian Hickson's blog post explaining the real reason behind DRM was posted on Google+ and is now completely unavailable (at least I can't find the o…

I am a personal friend of Chris, and was with him through most of his tenure at Google (we both got laid off at the same time). When Chris said no (and it was rare), it was usually…

I used to "share" an office with Hixie at Google. Hixie used to store his board game collection in the office we nominally "shared", but he himself very rarely visited. I liked tha…

Yes, I think there's a better way (which would make Samba faster on your system :-). Can you ping me at jra@samba.org and I'll explain !

Have you tried running Samba on top of cunoFS ? I'd be interested in performance data on that. For SMB3 access it might be better to add a Samba VFS vfs_cunoFS interface directly. …

Google, Vic Gundotra I believe.

Ah yes, the UK Police certainly won't use this to police speech they don't like: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-66462895

Discussion about Red Hat's recent source code availability changes.