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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:29:22 +0200
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> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:15:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > No.  You can't set "mount environment" in scp.
> 
> Of course you can.  It does execute the obvious set of rc files.

Don't think so.  ftp server and sftp server sure as hell don't.

> > Otherwise your analogy is nice, but misses a few points.  The usage of
> > mounts that we are talking about is much more dynamic than usage of
> > environment variables.
> 
> What the hell are you smoking and just how are you using shell?

Maybe differently from you :).  It's not that often that I have to
tweak environment variables.  They are usually set by scripts.

However if you write me a script that reads my mind as to which server
I want to mount with sshfs at which time, I give you all my respect.

Miklos