[Monotone-devel] Re: Anybody working on SSH (aka stdin/stdout) support for netsync

[Christof Petig]

graydon hoare schrieb:
> Christof Petig wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > is anybody working (or planning to work) on pipe/stdin/stdout support 
> > for netsync? I would love to have it working soon.
>
>
> I am not currently working on it, but I'd love to see an implementation. 
>   I can imagine two approaches: either teach Netxx how to wrap file 
> descriptors (quasi-sockets); or abstract netsync.cc to accept either 
> Netxx or file descriptor versions.
>
> either should be plausible, and would be most welcome.

I'm currently meditating on how to tell monotone's netsync that it 
should read from stdin.

Any better ideas than my favorite:

monotone --ssh [--key ""] pull address@hidden:port]/db_path 
collection ...
monotone --ssh serve collection ...

This would tell monotone to use a ssh connection to a remote server and 
start the monotone --ssh serve command there.

Problems: I don't like my remote db-address syntax too much.
The serve's --ssh option indicates stdin/stdout and is not really 
related to ssh (other than that it is called by the ssh access method).

    Christof

PS: This translates to
   ssh -p port -l user machine.net monotone --ssh --db /db_path serve 
collection ...