Re: [Monotone-devel] Unix domain sockets

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:06:36 -0700, William Uther 
<address@hidden> said:

willu.mailingLists>    My latest approach is to make a new transport scheme; 
ssh+ux://  
willu.mailingLists> and is in the branch: net.venge.monotone.local-sockets.  
The server  
willu.mailingLists> is started once and listens on a unix domain socket 
(addressed  
willu.mailingLists> through the file system on the server):
willu.mailingLists> 
willu.mailingLists> mtn serve --db=myDB.mtn --no-transport-auth 
--bind-local-socket=/a/ 
willu.mailingLists> path/i/can/use
willu.mailingLists> 
willu.mailingLists> A client then connects by opening an ssh connection and 
uses the  
willu.mailingLists> "socat" command to connect the unix socket to stdio:
willu.mailingLists> 
willu.mailingLists> mtn --db=localDB.mtn pull ssh+ux://host/a/path/i/can/use "*"
willu.mailingLists> 
willu.mailingLists> Multiple clients can connect at the same time, and they all 
work  
willu.mailingLists> correctly.
[...]
willu.mailingLists> Thoughts?

Yes, one: would it be possible to have the server accept connections
both on the usual port and through ssh+ux:?

Cheers,
Richard

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