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Renaming "afslocker" to "attach" for non-Athena OpenAFS 1.4.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Aug 11 09:21:21 2006
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Below, jdreed makes a case for renaming the "afslocker" script we ship
with non-Athena OpenAFS to "attach", and adding a "detach" script. The
rationale is that our attach does most of what Athena attach does, and
there is value to harmonizing the platforms.
I have run this by Greg Hudson and he "sees no big pitfalls".
I'm still hoping for a go-live of OpenAFS 1.4.1 for early next week. I
THINK we can make this change and still go live then.
Here is my inventory of what's needed:
1. Revise the installer (again).
a. rename afslocker to attach
b. add detach
c. confirm installer still works after changes.
d. confirm attach and detach function
2. Revise the detach stock answer.
(http://itinfo.mit.edu/answer.php?id=7017) to say "Yes." or just delete
it.
3. Revise the Install doc (http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7297):
rewrite penultimate bullet item to call it "attach" and say it is of
similar functionality to "attach as provided by Athena".
4. Revise the Getting Started doc
(http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7754): rewrite section
"Navigating and afslocker" to make attach canon.
5. Revise AFS at MIT: An Introduction
(http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=6845):
a. Change 4 instances of "attach or afslocker" to "attach"
b. Rewrite Navigation Shortcuts to delete "afslocker" references and
to detail any differences between Athena and non-Athena attach.
Next steps:
1. Get sign-off from Bob Lang, Alex Prengel, and Heather Anne that
doing this is OK.
2. Get sign-off from jdreed that the change can be made to the
installer.
3. Milestone: change is made to the installer.
4. The other 4 revision tasks are done.
Bob, Alex, Heather Anne: What say you?
-wdc
"Like my father before me, I shall remain 5 years old till the day I
die!"
On Aug 10, 2006, at 10:59 AM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> This is why I was wondering if we want to just call "afslocker"
> attach, to eliminate confusion, since it now mostly does everything
> attach does. I can easily add a "detach" command if we want one,
> which may be smarter that telling people to remove the symlink
> (especially if they're stupid and use a command which may follow the
> symlink and delete files in the locker)
