run-once LocalCommand [was: Re: Announce: OpenSSH 5.6 released]

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 08/25/2010 06:29 AM, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification. I have actually never tried it, because
> my understanding from reading the documentation of LocalCommand
> suggests that the command will be executed for each 'ssh' invocation.
> Be it a mux master or a mux client. I can try to bring up a patch
> which clarifies this in the documentation.

could you just make your LocalCommand test to see if it needs to be run?

e.g.

if [ grep -qv "^${MOUNTPOINT}" /proc/mounts ] ; then
    mount "${MOUNTPOINT}"
fi

in that case, it could run at each invocation and just do nothing if it
wasn't needed.

	--dkg

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