Re: Streams support in Linux

[Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 03:02:01PM +0000, Tom Talpey wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aur�lien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:55 AM
> > To: Tom Talpey <ttalpey@microsoft.com>; Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>;
> > Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>; Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>;
> > ebiggers@kernel.org; Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>; linux-fsdevel <linux-
> > fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
> > Subject: RE: Streams support in Linux
> > 
> > Tom Talpey <ttalpey@microsoft.com> writes:
> > > Wait, you're saying that Macs and Windows clients need to start issuing these
> > new magical ioctl's to Samba/Linux servers? Not a solution, IMO.
> > 
> > I think what Jeremy is saying is the other way around: linux programs
> > issuing ioctls that cifs.ko will translate to what SMB uses to handle
> > stream on the wire.
> 
> Well ok, but the same question might apply to local applications,
> or local libraries. Will there be a liblinuxsmb3streams.so, just to
> implement these?

Something like that. Remember, streams are not a part of POSIX
(and IMHO nor should they be :-).