[Dav-linuxfs] Re: davfs 0.2.4?

[Werner B. <wer...@on...>]

Hello,

my suggestions concerning the bugs in bugs.debian.org:

#303533 CODA kernel version mismatch:
Because of different Coda interfaces I think it's hard to make one 
davfs2-package working with both kernel versions. As I think davfs2 is 
mainly for desktops and kernel 2.4 will vanish on desktops soon, I 
dont't no whether it is worth the effort. So a transitional solution 
with two conflicting versions would be the easy way (at least for me if 
Luciano does the work ;-) ).

#311286 WebDAV URL's with spaces do not work:
This is a matter of shell escaping. I have send a reply explaining to 
escape spaces in arguments and options with '\' and not to do any http 
encoding, as this will be done by davfs2.

#310976 convert usernames/groupsnames to uid/gid:
I think this is solved in davfs2-0.2.3-testing. But it is disabled at 
the moment because of my quick an brutal security fix. For security 
reasons user and group are fixed to the mounting user.

#307096 parse environment for password, username and proxy:
davfs2-0.2.3-testing (cvs) will take the proxy from environment if not 
given another way.
But I don't like the idea of taking username and password from 
environment too. If a WebDAV-resource is used regularly the 
creditentials should be in the secrets file; else they should be asked 
interactively. This is the way davfs-0.2.3-testing does it.

#310757 doesn't enforce permissions:
I have done a fix for this. This is not the ultimate solution but I 
think a clean solution should be combined with integration of a 
directory cache (I'm working on this).
Unfortunately my fix for davfs2-0.2.3 does no longer allow user mount as 
this would be a security hole.
davfs2-0.2.3-testing has almost the same patch but allows user mount as 
user mount is handled differnt to davfs2-0.2.3.

I think, except #303533 CODA kernel version mismatch, all bugs are 
solved in davfs2-0.2.3-testing. So please test.
Would you mind if I merged davfs2-0.2.3-testing back into the main 
branch? I now think this might be a base for the next version (mainly 
because of improved user mount and proper behaviour on unmount). But we 
need to find the bugs that I don't see. Please tell me.

I started working on a directory cache as I think there are far to many 
request to the WebDAV-server that slow down davfs2 severely. So I would 
like to use the 0.2.3-testing branch for this. But as this will take 
some time to work I don't want to mix it up with the present 
davfs2-0.2.3-testing version.

Greetings
Werner