Hi, I have done a few tests.
fakeauth works with spawni.c from the glibc 2.3 (HEAD) branch. Roland, any plans to put this into the 2.2 branch? We can probably do this only for the Debian package, too. (The reason it doesn't work right now is that fork() creates a new receive right for the faked auth port, and so it is not inherited correctly. The generic spawni in 2.2 is based on fork+exec, while the sysdeps/mach/hurd/spawni.c in HEAD is not based on fork() at all. The difference should either be fixed by changing fork() or documented because spawni and fork+exec behave differently here). The fakeroot translator, see the other mail of today, there is a problem with symlinks. Then there is a problem in that many RPCs are not passed through. So pipes to the fakeroot world don't work, for example, and bash complains about that. So we need a message deflector for all unrecognised RPCs in the demuxer. Can we also deflect all RPCs that currently return EOPNOTSUPP? Or do we need to provide individual pass through functions for all functions in a subsystem we can not deflect entirely? settrans --chroot works fine. The fakeroot utility: It works within the limitation above, but not as the GNU/Linux fakeroot utility. The difference is that with fakeroot, you end up in the directory /, whereas the fakeroot utility in GNU/Linux does not change your current directory. How do we fix that best? Maybe provide a "--chroot-chdir" option to settrans that puts us into the directory specified? Than we can put "--chroot-chdir `pwd`" into the fakeroot script. I think that is all, but for more testing I need the message deflector. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
