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Andrew Tridgell 7f0c7702f6 r14208: removed use of req->flags2 inside the ntvfs layer. This should help
metze on his quest to unify the ntvfs strucures for the smb and smb2
servers. The only place we needed flags2 inside ntvfs was for the
FLAGS2_READ_PERMIT_EXECUTE bit, which only affects readx, so I added a
readx.in.read_for_execute flag instead.
(This used to be commit b78abbbce60ab0009da19a72dd769800c44298a2)
2007-10-10 13:57:03 -05:00
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2003-08-13 01:53:07 +00:00

This is the base of the new NTVFS subsystem for Samba. The model for
NTVFS backends is quite different than for the older style VFS
backends, in particular:

- the NTVFS backends receive windows style file names, although they
  are in the unix charset (usually UTF8). This means the backend is
  responsible for mapping windows filename conventions to unix
  filename conventions if necessary

- the NTVFS backends are responsible for changing effective UID before
  calling any OS local filesystem operations (if needed). The
  become_*() functions are provided to make this easier.

- the NTVFS backends are responsible for resolving DFS paths

- each NTVFS backend handles either disk, printer or IPC$ shares,
  rather than one backend handling all types

- the entry points of the NTVFS backends correspond closely with basic
  SMB operations, wheres the old VFS was modelled directly on the
  POSIX filesystem interface.

- the NTVFS backends are responsible for all semantic mappings, such
  as mapping dos file attributes, ACLs, file ownership and file times