08-21-2008, 03:36 PM
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 Re: Obsoleteness of X concept
Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>> X is a connection between the remote machine and a machine close to
>> the user. It would be convenient if the remote machine could talk to
>> a USB stick plugged into the machine close to the user. One way to do
>> this would be by piggybacking the traffic to the USB stick onto the X
>> traffic; an alternative would be to do it through ssh.
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>Tunneling more through ssh does sound interesting...
I guess the tunneling part is the easy part, but one would probably
have to mount the stick in some way on the remote system, and it
should only be accessible by the user. If we want near-universal
support (i.e., many platforms) for that, that's quite a lot of work.
In Linux, one can probably implement it through FUSE.
- anton
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