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

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:07:05 -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
>     > 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?

The idea was about accessing the library under the same user, no matter
who is accessing it. It is possible with NFS, but complicated to set up
and requires admin to set up each station (while with sftp only
1 account is needed).

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
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