[Netatalk-devel] netatalk 2.0.4 status

[didier <dga...@ma...>]

Hi,

Since the beta we have a lot of small fixes and a big one (CJK
encoding):

Open issues 

- CJK code :(
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I'm reluctant about this one. Not because it doesn't work, it does, but
because it changes conversion rules for other encoding. I think that
something like:
2.0.3
weird_unix_name --> to client --> weird_osx_name 
weird_osx_name --> from client --> weird_unix_name 

After an upgrade
2.0.4
weird_unix_name --> to client --> weird_osx_name_b 
weird_osx_name_b --> from client --> weird_unix_name_b

is possible, ie it doesn't round trip and we have dancing icons:
afp_enumerate return a filename but a following afp_getfilparms return a
file not found error.  

I don't know if it's likely though, it's only in corner cases.

Nonetheless I've checked the code so we can test it compiles and with a
four years release cycle we can't let it bit rote until 2013. 

- papd
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Who is still using papd?

papd is from a time when applications were expected to well behave... 
There's a lot of frightening pointers arithmetic on buffers under users
control.
I can fix most of them but I can't really test them, I don't use papd.

- default permission
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New volume 'perm' option helps but it doesn't solve all cases, ie want
0770 for directories but 0660 for files. 
A small change would be: 
add fperm (files) and dperm (directories) options. 

- Documentation
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The documentation build system is lost but it needs update for new
options. 
 	

Comments?


Didier

PS
Andrew:
Is it possible to know how many downloads of the beta tarball?