[COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Be there a "remote diff" utility?

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 7:51 AM John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org> wrote: but Sun had far more marketing clout. However, the Manchester Connection required a single uid space (as far as I can tell), which may also have been a (perceived) institutional barrier. So did NFS, for that matter. This is one of those areas where Unix appears creaky in comparison to Plan 9. `ssh` is all about remote access to resources, whereas plan 9 was all about resource sharing: you'd set up a namespace with all of the resources (exposed as files from wherever they ultimately came from) you cared about, and then operate on those "locally"; the resources were shared with you and access was transparent, via a consistent, file-based interface. You want to `diff` two remote files? Import the filesystems they're both on, mount those somewhere, and `diff /n/host1/file /n/host2/file`. I think the `sshfs`+FUSE model that Doug mentioned is about the closest you're going to get these days. - Dan C. - Dan C.