On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: > if you carry the idea through, i think you'll reinvent > 9p and mount :)
Of course, the idea could be done as a 9p file server. However, I think the fact that sam already uses a protocol with database-like semantics would greatly reduce the work needed. I also don't think that such a scheme would allow for real-time update in samterm (though of course, I don't know if my original idea would, either!) > >> How hard would it be to stick a program between a single sam -R and >> several samterms? I imagine such a program would have to interpret the >> sam protocol and handle merges and simultaneous updates, but since sam >> essentially treats files operations as database transactions, it seems >> like sam's protocol could be very helpful. The possibilities for what >> such an intermediary program could do are probably limitless, but I >> was thinking it could make collaborative editing via sam a >> possibility. >> >> I don't know enough about sam's protocol to know if such an idea would work. > > >