RE: pynfs updates

["Frank Filz" <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>]

> > > 		- SECNN4: is env.home necessarily unequal to "/"?  Would
> > > 		  seem better to do the lookup in a subdirectory just to
> > > 		  be certain.
> >
> > Env.home is the directory you specify on the command line, I think the
> > presumption is that it is a writeable file system. Pynfs creates tmp
> > and tree directories in home (and maybe some files also?). Guess if /
> > was writeable, you could specify /, so yea, maybe it should go into tmp.
> 
> Sounds good.

env.home does actually include traversing into tmp, so I will leave this
test alone.

> > A better test might actually be to do LOOKUP down to home and even
> > into tmp, looking for a junction, and then do the
> > SECINFO_NO_NAME(parent) on the directory handle just across the
> junction if one was found.
> 
> Yeah it'd be nice to check that cross-filesystem case but I don't think
it's
> necessary (and you still have to deal with the case where a mountpoint's
not
> found).
> 
> If tests at mountpoints were useful perhaps we could pass in a mountpoint
> on the commandline.  Or add some sort of export-configuration interface to
> the serverhelper script and let pynfs setup exports itself.

Yea, that might be something interesting to explore at some point.

Frank