[Spice-devel] [phodav PATCH RFC] webdavd: Automount shared folder on Windows

[Lukas Venhoda]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc-André Lureau" <mlureau at redhat.com>
> To: "Lukas Venhoda" <lvenhoda at redhat.com>
> Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 1:08:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [phodav PATCH RFC] webdavd: Automount shared folder on Windows
> 
> > > >  - I tried calling this function in callback, in g_task, but it seems,
> > > >  that
> > > >    Windows can only succesfully map the drive, if the function is
> > > >    called
> > > >    AFTER the first read (which blocks), that's why I decided to use a
> > > >    new
> > > >    thread.
> > > >      - This seems to be the only way to mount the drive in webdavd
> > > >      itself.
> > 
> > > When mounting, Windows will try to populate the folder, so the connection
> > > must be up before that. (I don't think a thread helps).
> > 
> > Yes. The thread doesn't help in that the connection must be running, The
> > problem is, that the read blocks when connected,
> 
> You mean "disconnected on Windows", right?

I should have re-read that after myself, the wording is bad.
What I meant is that, after I enabled sharing, and the connection is established, webdavd blocks on read.
This unblocks only after the drive is mounted, meaning I have to mount in parallel to reading.
If I call it before, it just fails (because as you said, connection must be up before that)
and I can't call it after that, because it blocks forever.

As I said, there might be a better fix for this, but I couldn't find any that would work properly.

Lukas