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| author | Matthieu Patou <mat@matws.net> | 2010-01-12 02:23:13 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2010-01-21 07:11:18 +1300 |
| commit | 0cdc39e7302adf86010d23ef0f08f3cbdcf6b1b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 58a438d6a472485468cb78bb44cc80d300c57603 /source4/lib | |
| parent | a4b01dd59c386c84776367b46b0fa726918dbebc (diff) | |
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Add a comment to tdb_wrap to explain why it should be used instead of directly using tdb
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| -rw-r--r-- | source4/lib/tdb_wrap.h | 7 |
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diff --git a/source4/lib/tdb_wrap.h b/source4/lib/tdb_wrap.h index eb0191fb31..20ab53fb35 100644 --- a/source4/lib/tdb_wrap.h +++ b/source4/lib/tdb_wrap.h @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ +/* IMPORTANT: tdb_wrap should be always prefered over tdb_context for end consumer functions + it's because if the code will be running inside smbd, then we must use the linked list + of open tdb files, to determine if the tdb we desire is already open + as otherwise, when you close the tdb (even on a different file descriptor), + ALL LOCKS are lost (due to a real screwup in the POSIX specification that nobody has been able to get fixed) +*/ + #ifndef _TDB_WRAP_H_ #define _TDB_WRAP_H_ |