[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Change in openafs[master]: cmdebug -dcache

[Hartmut Reuter]

Simon Wilkinson (Code Review) wrote:
> Simon Wilkinson has posted comments on this change.
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> Change subject: cmdebug -dcache
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> Patch Set 1: (2 inline comments)
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> The new GetDCacheEntry RPC and its associate structure needs to be
> standardised, and a proper code point allocated. It should be pretty easy to
> put together a draft describing this for the afs3-standardisation list.

Ok. Before spending much time on writing a draft I wanted to present this simple 
addition just by showing the few lines of code.
>
> I'd also like to see some consideration of the security consequences of
> publishing the contents of the disk cache to anyone who asks, but that can be
> done as part of the standardisation discussion.

I think all the information about which files have been seen on the client are 
already visible wich "cmdebug -long". The only additional information is which 
chunks of the files are actually cached. Perhaps one could create a switch on 
the client to disable both RPCs for sites which have security concerns.
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> src/fsint/afscbint.xg Line 125: ) = 65540; Has this code point been allocated
> by the registrar?

Not yet, I first wanted to see the reaction of the community...
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> src/fsint/common.xg Line 86: Whitespace
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