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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: samba and NFS support (was: Re: from Corel: may we help?)
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () cramersystems ! com>
Date:       1999-11-26 16:41:38
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> Problems:
> -------
> -smbmount only exists for linux, 
> maybe mounting for linux and your stuff on other systems ?

The real problem is that mounting is completely incompatible
with the kioslave architecture.
You never know when a kioslave might get killed, you can have
two kioslaves accessing the same url one after the other (or at the same
time ? not sure).

kioslaves are designed to be "request/response" slaves.
Example of dialogue :
KIOJob : "Give me http://www.kde.org/index.html"
kio_http : "Here it is, step by step while I'm loading it"
KIOJob : Thanks, you can die now.
kio_http : Aaargh.
(Alternatively, kio_http can be kept [in a fridge] and reused later on).


I don't think mounting/unmounting each time a file is accessed
is a viable solution, is it ?

The only solution for NFS is a separate app (or plugin) that 
you can ask manually to mount/unmount a drive.

For SMB, though, kio_smb seems a better solution since it doesn't require
explicitely mounting - just like you don't have to mount SMB shares, under
Windows.

--
David Faure
faure@kde.org - KDE developer
david@mandrakesoft.com - Mandrake
david.faure@cramersystems.com - Cramer Systems

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