Re: Executing files on vfs [was Re: graphical ssh based file browser.. (a gmc addition ?)]

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 01:51:31AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza was heard to say:
> 
> > What are you going to do with stdin, stdout, stderr? Fish protocol
> > needs that ssh connection for itself, and working only for X apps
> > seems ugly to me. Also, what do you use as cwd for remote programs?
> 
> Very good point.  Not as simple as we had originally thought it would
> be.  It is doable, but not the 50-line hack I was planning.
> 
> Basically, we would have to tunnel stdin/stdout/stderr trought the
> fish connection.
> 

  Why not open a second ssh connection for the new program?  Or are there
worse problems with that that I'm missing?

  Daniel

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