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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: vision-fs and Samba
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:43:24 GMT
References: <6ab312fd.0305211349.77742990@posting.google.com> <VA0Ba.491499$Si4.422437@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net> 

Jim Rendant wrote:

> I would not recommend Samba since it presents a memory leak. There is a
> problem
> from what I have seen on the NET with some socket calls. But I have yet to
> see a fix.

A perfectly servicable fix has been posted several times (in fact, about
4 different fixes, one of which is to use OSR507).  Search
groups.google.com for "openserver samba leak patch".  One thread
includes a reply from a Samba developer saying "I'm applying the change
to all branches.", so this is presumably fixed in the current CVS of
Samba 2.2.x.  Ah, yes, the necessary patch is contained in:

  http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/lib/util_sock.c?rev=1.78

though this probably won't build correctly with Samba 2.2.8a due to
other changes.  rev=1.77 has a better chance; otherwise, extract the
simple patch (search for "Openserver" in a comment).

>Bela<

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