[OpenAFS-devel] php-(a)fs

[Alberto Mancini]

Hi,
I am going to release the initial version of the afs module for php
where pioctl is wrapped (and a couple of helpers are provided to decode
responses for interesting opcodes, as well as a trivial ACL class for easy
manipulation of permissions in php).
Finally, there is in the code a rudimentary attempt to provide access
to vldb (i.e. I'm trying to mimic vos examine, needs work).

Actually, I have a couple of questions:
(I hope the first one is not off-topic)

1. there are license issues ?
     i.e. what kind of license is ``compatible`` with openafs ?
     (a)GPL ? BSD ? apache ? ... ?

2. the most complex part of writing the code was ``choosing libraries``;
    there is a best practice ?
    or better: there is somewhere documentation about the libraries
    generated building openafs and their ``purpose`` ?

3. pioctl opcode VIOCGETVOLSTAT gives a VolumeStatus where
    ``Type`` is always 1;
    a bug, a feature or, my misunderstanding ?

Sincerly,
 			Alberto.



On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Alberto Mancini wrote:

> Hi,
> I wrote, mostly to understand the difficulties, a tiny php extension wrapping 
> a couple of pioctl calls.
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> Actually WHEREIS,GETACL,GETVOLSTAT are in the code and I think that
> writing the extension is less problematic than processing  'fs'
> output.
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> The code (that is really a quick-and-dirty test) can be downloaded
> at the URL:
> 	 http://ununtrio.math.unifi.it/PHP/
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> where a working test (test.php) is available.
> Most of the code is from fs.c.
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> Any criticism will be apreciated.
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> I'd like to ear ideas on the general layout of the extension (OO ?) and on 
> the "operations" that may be useful to implement.
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> The code is going to be part of a web-afs-access system
> (something similar to filedrawers, and based on mod_waklog)
> we are planning/developing for our users.
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> Alberto.
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