"public NFS" on freedesktop.org ? / was: Re: [Xorg] Anon Ftp onfreedesktop.org?

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Tue May 25 12:28:02 PDT 2004


Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > ? So far this isn't more dangerous that WebDAV. And WebDAV isn't an
> > option since non-Linux OSes can't handle it (and WebDAV isn't "secure"
> > either).
> 
> Nonsense.  OS X and Windows both make use of WebDAV, KDE and GNOME both
> offer user-space VFS access to WebDAV, and other OSes have either their
> own user-space drivers for WebDAV or third-party utilities to access it.

Correct me if I am wrong - you are talking about toolkit-specific
filesystem emulations, right ? I doubt the shell can access those
filesystems...

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Roland

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