Re: [Gnu-arch-users] PFS access to revision library? (Was: Re: bad permissions when adding revisions to the library)

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Jan Hudec <address@hidden>

    > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:33:56 +0100, Pau Aliagas wrote:

    > > I want to share the revision library and to do so I've created a shared 
    > > dir, with g+s permisions. People belonging to the groups should be able 
to 
    > > store revisions there.

    > It makes me think of the following: Is it possible (or how hard
    > it would be to make it possible) to access revision libraries
    > using the "pseudo filesystem" layer -- ie. accessing revision
    > libraries with eg. sftp?  That would allow developers working on
    > a same server/in same computer lab to share a revision library
    > for their project.

The PFS layer doesn't have a rich enough interface for even read-only
access to a revision library.   It can't, for example, `stat' a file.

Write access is even harder.  For exaple, `patch(1)' writes some of
the files that wind up in a revision library but patch expects a
normal filesystem.

When you say "same computer lab" -- why not use NFS?

-t