hello,

after getting nerd sniped on IRC, i investigated why rclone mount was
broken for OpenBSD. it turned out to not be too hard, and thanks to some
help and the responsiveness of upstream [1] [2], `rclone mount` now works for
OpenBSD.

building rclone master with `go build -tags cmount`, one can run for
example

        doas ./rclone mount --sftp-user mischief --sftp-pass $(./rclone obscure 
$SEKRIT) --sftp-host 192.168.0.10 :sftp:/ ~/mnt

and then access files in ~/mnt (as root)

i did run into some bugs while testing, like fuse hanging vfs (and then
hanging the system on shutdown), or the mount not refreshing remote
directory contents when it is updated on the remote, but at least it can
mount now.

hopefully there will be a tag and a port bump before 7.9, and i hope
someone finds this useful.

[1] https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/9122
[2] https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/9126

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