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Development / Linux / Samba
The git versioning system has two really nice features you might already heard about. One of them is git-worktree and the other are bare git repositories. This makes my life a lot easier working on Samba as often I have several feature branches I’m working on. Some features often take several months to finish. I don’t want to compile them again and again every time...
Development / Linux / Samba / Uncategorized
A new version of socket_wrapper has just been released. In short, socket_wrapper is a library passing all socket communications through unix sockets. It aims to help client/server software development teams willing to gain full functional test coverage. It makes possible to run several instances of the full software stack on the same machine and perform locally functional testing of complex network configurations. New in version...
I’ve recently bought a Garmin Fenix Multisport Smartwatch. The watch offers support for navigation and maps. By default it came with some topo maps for Europe. However I wanted to use more detailed maps from OpenStreetMap. After some search I’ve discovered the wonderful Freizeitkarte project, which is a project to offer maps for Garmin devices. The default maps work OKish on the device. However as...
As I’m an amateur photographer, I’m using Open Source tools for developing my images. The software I use is called darktable. I think it is the best tool out there for editing RAW images. From time to time I contributed small code changes to darktable, mostly bug fixes. Now I nearly finished my first feature for darktable, support for the AVIF image format. For implementing...
I’m happy to announce version 1.1.2 of cmocka, a unit testing framework for C with mocking support. ChangeLog Added function to filter tests (cmocka_set_test_filter) Added new mocking example (uptime) Fixed fixture error reporting Fixed compiler flags detection Some improvement for API documentation
Development / RedHat / Samba
TL;DR: Parse and print .cat files: dumpmscat Introduction Günther Deschner and myself are looking into the new Microsoft Printing Protocol [MS-PAR]. Printing always means you have to deal with drivers. Microsoft package-aware v3 print drivers and v4 print drivers contain Microsoft Catalog files. A Catalog file (.cat) is a digitally-signed file. To be more precise it is a PKCS7 certificate with embedded data. Before I...
It took more than a year but finally Jakub and I released a new version of cmocka today. If you don’t know it yet, cmocka is a unit testing framework for C with support for mock objects! We set the version number to 1.1.0 because we have some new features: Support to catch multiple exceptions Support to verify call ordering (for mocking) Support to pass...
Development / KDE / Linux
Jakub Hrozek and I are proud to announce the first release of pam_wrapper. This tool allows you to either simplify testing PAM modules or your application using PAM to authenticate users. PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a layer of abstraction on top of Unix authentication. For testing PAM-aware applications we have written a simple PAM module called pam_matrix. If you plan to test a PAM...
Development / KDE / Linux / Samba
I’ve just released uid_wrapper-1.2.0, a testing tool to fake privilege separation! The new version correctly checks privileges when changing IDs and has a lot more tests! Learn more at https://cwrap.org.
Development / KDE / Linux
Since I joined the libssh project we started to write tests to find regression and make development easier. This has been achieved using the a unit testing framework called cmocka which I maintain and develop. The problem is that to run these tests you need to modify the sshd configuration and setup a test user so that the tests can be successfully executed. This is...
