From: "Rudolf Sykora" <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] mount followed by srvfs needs a sleep?
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:48:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d00810200548y4a4cb201k9c000bad7f079ea@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hello,
I have this function in my lib/profile:
fn penelopa{
srv penelopa.karlov.mff.cuni.cz penelopa
#to solve the authentication --- see the text bellow
mount /srv/penelopa $home/shared/penelopa
unmount $home/shared/penelopa
local mount /srv/penelopa $home/shared/penelopa
#sleep 1 # --- see the text bellow; this pertains to my main
question
local srvfs CALC $home/shared/penelopa/home/ruda/CPA-CALC #****
local mount /srv/CALC $home/shared/CALC
}
where local is this script:
#!/bin/rc
plumb 'Local ' ^ $"*
(simply, the commands prepended with 'local' are to be executed by the rc of
the plumber).
And it doesn't work, the #**** command complaining:
not OK (63): chdir(44:"/usr/ruda/shared/penelopa/home/ruda/CPA-CALC"):
'/usr
followed by a naural complaint from the last command:
mount: can't open /srv/CALC: '/srv/CALC' file does not exist
However, adding the 'sleep 1' at the shown place remedies the situation and
everything suddenly works alright. Can anybody say a word about this?
Note: /srv/penelopa is a filesystem on a remote linux-running machine.
Also note: this is all about having 'global namespace' --- mounting in some
window, seeing everywhere; I have these further instructions in the 'case
terminal' part of my 'profile': mntgen $home/shared; srvfs shared
$home/shared; plumber; rfork n; mount -c /srv/shared $home/shared; exec rio
-i riostart. But this is hopefully only to complete the picture. I hope this
is irrelevant as far as my question is concerned...
Thanks
Ruda
PS.: also a related little question:
When connecting to a remote machine with a 'srv' command follow by a 'mount'
command, the execution of the 'mount' results in a request for entering a
username&password. This happens only during the first login attempt. After
that no further authentication is required. Now. I somehow use this fact to
be able to log in. I first run mount followed by unmount. This requires the
login&password. Only then I execute my 'local mount ...' command. If I
executed this right away (without mount & unmount) I would end in a
situation when the plumber shell needs to talk to me. But this shell writes
to the /dev/kprint...
What is the better way?
(and, actually, is this kind of authentication any safe?)
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next reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 12:48 Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2008-10-20 13:05 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-20 14:43 ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-20 15:24 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-20 16:06 ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-20 23:10 ` Micah Stetson
2008-10-21 8:26 ` Rudolf Sykora
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