Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> writes:
> * Joshua Juran <jju...@gmail.com> [2008-03-02 16:20]:
>> On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:29 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>>> Doesn't a little script that does rsync, edit, rsync cut it?
>>
>> Assuming you mean from the local system: No. That fails to
>> reuse not only the context implicit in the remote shell
>> (foreign host, current directory), but also the perfectly good
>> already-established ssh tunnel.
>
> Given a sufficiently recent OpenSSH, you can at least get it to
> reuse the existing SSH connection. Doesn't fix the other problems
> of course.
...or so you might think. Except that OpenSSH will happily kill all
your other sessions if you terminate the master session, or fail to act
on port forwarding requests on slave sessions, or randomly not forward
X, or...
Then again, it might not. These "features" come and go. So, in a few
years when the process works sensibly and all it might be valuable.
Until then you can look forward to stabbing the developers who released
such a half-arsed implementation of the idea to the world.
Daniel
--
X Windows is the Iran-Contra of graphical user interfaces: a tragedy of
political compromises, entangled alliances, marketing hype, and just plain
greed. X Windows is to memory as Ronald Reagan was to money.
-- The Unix Haters Handbook
