FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> 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
> 

I can confirm that server code is quite not maintained. Last year we did
some updates in order to accommodate Steve Kirkendall work (he did a
small driver for his db). It was designed with the idea to help testing
however was too hard to maintain in sync with driver development
(current drivers support a lot of feature like rpc, dynamic sql and so
on that are difficult to implement in server). 
If you feel useful for you please post any update. I think that you
should avoid latest protocols (tds 5/7/8) and use former 4.2.

freddy77