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Gnome VFS Mount 0.1

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Bag of Software

Hello folks.

Since I saw gmailfs, I wondered why gnome did not have a way to
mount gnomevfs-uris on the linux filesystem.

I have taken a look into fuse and I realized it would be very easy doing the same with gnomevfs.

Then, I've written a small program, named gnomevfs-mount available in my primates (currently, but it could be moved to a SourceForge
project soon).

Examples

Intalling it is easy, just ./configure && make && make install

For rpm based distributions (RedHat, Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE) a spec is provided inside the tarball, then you can generate rpms with:

rpmbuild -ta gnomevfs-mount-0.1.tar.bz2

It supports authentification using gnome-keyring so you don't have to write the same password if you are using gnome-keyring-manager.

Since the original announce it has changed a little, emphasizing autotools support and authentification.

I want to thank Teuf and Federico in #gnome for answering my repetive questions. :)

Comments and ideas are welcome.

User space is better that's what

user space programs are potentially more portable and secure.

In case you didn't know Gnome runs on 5 kinds of Linux (different packaging systems, hardware architectures etc.) and probably 10 other operating systems:

Linux (i386, PPC, IA64, Sparc, mips, m68K etc. etc.

HPUX

Solaris (various types)

AIX

OpenBSD (multiple architectures)

NetBSD (multiple architectures)

HURD

FreeBSD (multiple architectures)

ARM

Alpha

With X servers and things like mingw Gnome may run on Apple OS/X and Windows for all I know ...

I want this in user space not in a kernel that breaks it with every patch.