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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete•org>
To: Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave•org>
Cc: nncp-devel@lists.cypherpunks.ru
Subject: Re: Setup on unprivileged accounts
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 23:23:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6lwh64j.fsf@complete.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YQqbP79STxfdGgVq@stargrave.org>
On Wed, Aug 04 2021, Sergey Matveev wrote:
>>4) Perhaps a variant on #3, I could have a regular-permissioned
>>spool
>>directory and then nncp-xfer into a separate tree with
>>directories owned as
>>appropriate with sticky bits set. Peers would have a similar
>>nncp-xfer to
>>pull stuff out of there.
>
> Only here I understand that you want to share packets between
> the user
> accounts on the same system? nncp-xfer is what comes in my mind
> first
> here: one shared/accessible directory. And spools in home
> directories.
> And much more efficient transmission comparing to online
> (-daemon,
> -call*) tools. Actually files from the spool technically can be
> even
> hardlinked, without any copying at all, in theory (current code
> just
> copies data).
Yes, that is what I meant, and I did completely forget to explain
what I was trying to do. Sigh, my mistake. Yes, I think
nncp-xfer will be quite suitable here.
I will try to finish setting it up on SDF and then I need to find
a place to stick all my NNCP docs and things too. Hopefully by
the weekend I'll have something to share.
- John
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-05 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-04 4:08 Setup on unprivileged accounts John Goerzen
2021-08-04 12:22 ` John Goerzen
2021-08-04 13:50 ` Sergey Matveev
2021-08-04 18:58 ` Jonathan Lane
2021-08-05 4:23 ` John Goerzen [this message]