if first invocation is cancelled before unlocking key, second invocation fails, requires unmount

[dradetsky]

Suppose I run sshfs having not yet ssh-added my key. I am then prompted to enter the password for my key. I want to enter my password only once, so I C-c the sshfs process, run ssh-add, then re-run sshfs. I assume that because I haven't given sshfs my unlocked key, nothing has happened, so the result will be that the second sshfs invocation mounts the filesystem.

The actual result is that the filesystem is somehow half-mounted. I don't yet fully understand what has happened, but the upshot is that it will not mount until I run fusermount -uz $MOUNTPOINT (The -z may not be required).

I don't see any reason why beginning the mount before acquiring the key or password or whatever is desirable.

[dradetsky]

In case this has already been fixed upstream:

% sshfs -V
SSHFS version 2.5
FUSE library version: 2.9.4
fusermount version: 2.9.4
using FUSE kernel interface version 7.19

[Nikratio]

Fully agree, patches are welcome :-).