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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:23:37 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Collaborative Sam?
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if you carry the idea through, i think you'll reinvent
9p and mount :)

> How hard would it be to stick a program between a single sam -R and
> several samterms? I imagine such a program would have to interpret the
> sam protocol and handle merges and simultaneous updates, but since sam
> essentially treats files operations as database transactions, it seems
> like sam's protocol could be very helpful. The possibilities for what
> such an intermediary program could do are probably limitless, but I
> was thinking it could make collaborative editing via sam a
> possibility.
>
> I don't know enough about sam's protocol to know if such an idea would work.