[20439] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.1.11: attach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun A Tharuvai)
Sat Jun 29 00:46:23 2002
Message-Id: <200206290446.AAA12254@cutter-john.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 00:46:20 -0400
From: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
System name: cutter-john.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.1.11
Display type:
Shell: /bin/athena/bash
Window manager: ctwm
What were you trying to do?
Get tokens for a cell upon attaching a locker in the cell, using
the -y (--map) option to attach.
What's wrong:
For an AFS locker with "n" as the third element of the hesiod
filsys entry, e.g. outland, running "attach -y outland" does not
get me sipb.mit.edu cell tokens. attach -n outland doesn't get me
sipb.mit.edu cell tokens, but this is the normal behavior.
However, when attempting to attach the fonts locker, with "w" as
the third element, I get sipb.mit.edu cell tokens when attaching
with -y and don't get them when using the -n option.
It seems that attach obeys the -y and -n options only when the
third element of the hesiod filsys entry is "w", and ignores it
when it is "n".
What should have happened:
Using the -y options should attempt to acquire tokens, when the
third part of the hesiod filsys pointer is "n". If there is code
which assumes that attaching "n" filsys entries never leads to
tokens being acquired for the realm, then the existing behavior
should be documented.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
attach(1)
