Abstract
One fallout of Samba's protection against symlink races was a slowdown of pathname handling. This talk will present the current status at the time of the conference of the ongoing work to fix the slowdown by using modern Posix and in particular Linux/FreeBSD APIs.
- How to deal with pathnames in posix in a symlink-safe way
- Approaches to performance tests and analysis for pathname handling
- Performance comparison of the different Samba versions over time