sshfs on Mac OS X can kill Gnome Warlocks

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run Mac SSHFS
2. Filesystem becomes unavailable due to firewall killing idle connection 
(Netscreen, in my case)
3. DEATH

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

sshfs should optionally cache user credentials and not require re-auth if 
filesystem becomes 
non-responsive.  Instead, Mac SSHFS interrupts very important activities and 
can cause death.  
(Please see below.)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

0.3.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.10 (intel)

Please provide any additional information below.

http://iedconline.org/~emory/death-by-sshfs.mp4

Original issue reported on code.google.com by emo...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2007 at 2:23

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Creative "bug" report. However:

1. sshfs.app was, and is, a demo GUI wrapper that was open sourced so people 
can play with it and/or extend 
it.

2. You can instead use the command-line sshfs program (which is the "real" 
sshfs). No GUI means no 
password pop-up dialog boxes.

3. sshfs.app is explicitly unsupported (the download link says "Unsupported" 
too). There was (and is) plenty to 
do in MacFUSE Core--the OS component that drives all these things--that I 
currently have no resources to 
develop or maintain higher level components such as the sshfs GUI.

http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel/browse_thread/thread/5dbb1af9eb4b3e
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Original comment by si...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2007 at 7:53

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