[Monotone-devel] Random idea -- making ssh:// multi-user-friendly

[Nathaniel Smith]

07:20 <njs> you know what we should do?  when a server starts up in
   stdio mode, it should first try to bind() to <db-name.mtn>.socket,
   and if it succeeds, start serving like a daemon on that socket
   while continuing to do the initial serve on stdio
07:20 <njs> but if the bind() fails, then it should instead connect()
   to that AF_UNIX socket, and just proxy its stdio to the resulting
   socket.
07:21 <njs> bam, multiple people can sync ssh:// to the same db at the
   same time, no muss no fuss.
07:21 <njs> and the daemon automatically runs only when needed.

Still have less security control than when running a real server
(users get some kind of raw write access to the database), and
probably have to tweak permissions on the db/db directory in just the
right way, but would be neat.

-- Nathaniel

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