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Bug 592341 - Uses deprecated symbol from libsmbclient
Uses deprecated symbol from libsmbclient
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Module: smb
2.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-19 14:25 UTC by Josselin Mouette
Modified: 2018-08-17 13:45 UTC
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Description Josselin Mouette 2009-08-19 14:25:41 UTC 
The smb module uses a function which is not part of the smbclient public API. The prototype is declared by hand:
  int smbc_remove_unused_server(SMBCCTX * context, SMBCSRV * srv);

However the smbc_remove_unused_server has been removed from samba since version 3.2. Each time the gnome-vfs daemon tries to use this function (which happens after using a SMB mount for more than 30 minutes), it simply crashes with a symbol lookup error.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2009-08-20 19:42:07 UTC 
gnome-vfs won't receive many fixes anyway as it's deprecated.
Patches welcome...
Comment 2 André Klapper 2018-08-17 13:45:38 UTC 
gnome-vfs got deprecated in 2008.

gnome-vfs is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes
in 2011. Its codebase has been archived:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-vfs/commits/master

gio (in glib) and gvfs are its successors. See https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch33.html and https://people.gnome.org/~gicmo/gio-migration-guide/ for porting info.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Feel free to open a task in GNOME Gitlab if the issue described in this task still applies to a recent + supported version of glib/gio/gvfs. Thanks!