PP's ncps contributed code

With ncpfs, connections to NetWare can be classified in three kinds:

Temporary connections are established within a process by a call to NWCCOpenConn* API calls or their derivatives (ncp_open_*). These connections cannot be shared between several processes and should be closed when the process terminates with calls to NWCCCloseConn() or ncp_close_conn().

Permanent connections are created by mounting a NetWare resource on the local system. Once created by a process, they can be re-opened by other processes by a call to ncp_open_mount(&conn, mount_point). Closing these connections by a process does not actually cut the Netware connection but simply releases memory allocated when reopening it. To actually close these connections and detach from NetWare resources, process must umount the associated mount point. The file /etc/mtab keeps track of these connections in standard Unix format; internally reopening a permanent connection creates a new connection handle and fill its internal data with information read back from this file. This client uses extensively permanent connections.

Shared connections are similar to permanent connections, but are usually opened at startup of a Unix client and use as a mount point a system-wide accessible directory. All users logged in can use this connection to access NetWare resources such as file systems or printing queues. With regular user, this client do not use nor create shared connections. All mounting are done using default mount points within current user 's Unix home directory and receive 700 file permissions. With superuser, some of the created permanent connections may behave as shared connections if the mount point is a publicly accessible directory and specific file permissions are provided as command line parameters.