id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc fix_version see_also 227 Improve semantics of attach/detach and add jdreed "After discussion on Athena10 list and via IM, broder has proposed amendments to attach and detach as they're currently working on debathena/Athena10: (a) Change liblocker so that the attachtab has a concept of per-user mounts (i.e. in addition to tracking which users have a locker mounted, it can also say ""broder has /afs/.sipb/project/whatever mounted at /mit/whatever, but price has /usr/local/whatever mounted at /mit/whatever"") (b) Write PyLocker (c) Change pyHesiodFS to use PyLocker instead of keeping its own cache and additionally, alter it to present a different view onto /mit for each user. (i.e. I would actually *see* /mit/whatever symlinked to /afs/.sipb/project/whatever, while if Greg looked at /mit/whatever, he'd see a symlink to /usr/local/whatever) - This is actually not that hard once parts (a) and (b) are done. PyFUSE has fuse.FuseGetContext(), which returns the UID, GID, and PID of the process making the given request. This would allow us to bring back attach -e, and even allow it to be run by non-root users. ---- Also add -r should remove the locker from the Search path even if it is not attached rather than complaining of a non-attached locker. ---- This improved interface should be implemented and tested to see if it is better, and if it is better, it should become the default. " enhancement closed low The Distant Future -- fixed hackathon