Samba 3+4=7?

Lars Müller, Samba Team, bei SUSE seit 2000

One or two projects?

Samba 3 = produccction Samba 4 = research ⇒ 3 - 4 = 7 = desaster?

Research production conflict

Samba 4 main process utilizes required Samba 3 parts

• dlopen
• gcc -fvisivility=hidden to avoid symbol conflicts
• s3comüat

Frankenstein aka Franky

• s4 and s3 run in parallel
• tasks distributed among processes
• deamons communicate via unix domain sockets
• modular approach