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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: SSH kioslave
From:       Lucas Fisher <ljfisher () iastate ! edu>
Date:       2001-10-14 19:15:06
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Jörg Walter wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 10 October 2001 19:35, Lucas Fisher wrote:
> > We seem to have a plethera of ssh ioslaves. :)  I wrote a sftp ioslave over
> 
> Only none worked until Saturday, when I began coding this one. Or they were
> hiding cleverly. kio_fish works, and I am confident enough to call it 1.0,
> both feature- and bug-wise. (Please, do send bug reports or simple "it works")
> Moreover, FISH is not sftp. FISH is no protocol at all, but using dd, cat,
> rm, mv, cp, grep, ls, ... to do all filesystem management tasks. I even want
> try to use rsync for better performance, dunno yet if it is possible.
> Basically, even if you're stuck with some obscure web server O/S and no admin
> privileges, you can still work fine.

my sftp ioslave works :)  If it doesn't let me know what problems you are
encountering.


> > the summer and it's currently in cvs (kdebase/ioslaves/sftp). I'm thinking
> > we can integrate our efforts.
> 
> Might be, it should be easy to nick my subprocess code. It is not PtyProcess
> but some selfmade (and self-copied from konsole ;) stuff, which should even
> work on cygwin, since it doesn't depend on pty's being available, falling
> back to a socketpair instead. You lose password authentication this way, but
> via ssh-agent you can still work.
> Since like some others I made the mistake to use KProcess in the beginning,
> the code is event driven and 'feels' as if it were still using KProcess,
> being completely asynchronously.

That's why I used PTYProcess as a base.  The code for doing cross-platform ptys
is terribly ugly, but has already been taken care of in the PTYProcess and PTY
classes.


Lucas
 
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