Re: [PATCH] private mounts

Jan Hudec
2005-04-25T07:11:49Z

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On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 23:29:22 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > 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.

Sftp sure *DOES*. It is invoked by shell, which is not run as login one,
but even non-login shell sources an rc file.

> > > 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.

I can't write a script that reads your mind. But I sure can write
a script that finds out what you mounted in the other shells (with help
of a little wrapper around the mount command).

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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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