FreeTDS Development Group

["James Harper" <james.harper AT bendigoit.com.au>]

There is a 'server' directory in src in the freetds tree, which builds
libtdssvr.so, which appears to be a library which can handle the server
side of the tds protocol. It contains a 'tds_listen' call which listens
on a tcp port, and then a 'tds_alloc_read_login' which allocates a login
structure and reads the login from the client (eg Query Analyser), and a
whole load of other calls to do with reading a query and sending results
(eg the opposite of sending a query and reading results).

It doesn't seem to work properly though... for tds8 with a username of
'fnord', the 'tds_alloc_read_login' call only seems to read the username
of 5 bytes, but tds8 uses multibyte so it should read 10 bytes.

Looking at the code, it may be that I need to initialise the iconv stuff
so it is properly aware of multibyte characters, but I'm not sure how to
do that.

I get the impression that this code is essentially unmaintained and
possibly unused.

If anyone is using it, I would love to speak to you :) Alternatively if
you know with any authority that the code is in fact unmaintained and
unused, I probably need to hear that too :(

Thanks

James



> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:freetds-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Brian Morton
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:41
> To: 'FreeTDS Development Group'
> Subject: Re: [freetds] server
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean.  How are you using FreeTDS to
connect to
> SQL Server 2000 with query analyzer.  Query analyzer is a windows
product
> that can connect with a Windows SQL Server driver (included in mdac).
> FreeTDS is an SQL Server driver for things other than Windows.  How
does a
> non-windows system fit into your picture?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Harper [mailto:james.harper AT bendigoit.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:06 AM
> To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [freetds] server
> 
> Can anyone comment on the status of the server code? I can't get it to
do
> anything useful for me, just errors and seg faults when I try and
connect
> with 'SQL Query Analyser' from SQL Server 2000...
> 
> I'm using 0.63 if that makes any difference.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James
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