Interview: Andrew Tridgell, the heart beat of Samba (LinuxWorld.com.au) [LWN.net]

LinuxWorld.com.au interviews Samba creator Andrew Tridgell. "Andrew Tridgell: Over the last seven months I have been building the basic infrastructure for Samba version 4. As you know, Samba version 3 is only now nearing its final release, but while that is an important release its scope is much narrower than what we are aiming for in Samba4." (Thanks to Sydney King)

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Interview: Andrew Tridgell, the heart beat of Samba (LinuxWorld.com.au)

Posted Sep 2, 2003 21:31 UTC (Tue) by jonabbey (guest, #2736) [Link] (1 responses)

What an amazingly great story. Samba 4 sounds utterly fantastic in its ambitions and quality, and Linus debugging a dead server over an NFS protocol bug on an early linux system.. priceless.

Interview: Andrew Tridgell, the heart beat of Samba (LinuxWorld.com.au)

Posted Sep 2, 2003 23:11 UTC (Tue) by AdHoc (guest, #1115) [Link]

Yeah. While everyone admires Linus for Linux, the accomplishment is almost too large and general to inspire real awe (of the whoa! variety). However, the little debugging story illustrates in sharp detail the man's genius, especially since Tridge is in awe of guy. Tridge has been described as quite the genius himself, especially with the work he has done on rsync, which is probably more algorithmically challenging than what most coders get into. Anyway, enough fanboying, great interview.

The only thing I'm wondering...

Posted Sep 4, 2003 23:10 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link]

...is how you use a file-truncation bug in an NFS server to read /proc.

Interesting interview!