Replying to my own post: > Actually, it would be nice to port the jail(8) mechanism to the Hurd. We > could perhaps even rename it to matrix(8)... ;-) Anybody volunteering?
If someone is interested in this, I'd suggest to start experimenting with sub-Hurds (you can start a new set of Hurd servers from within the Hurd). In a nutshell, a sub hurd _can_ provide a virtualized environment, similar to jail(8), when configured properly. There are some issues like synchronizing access to devices which need to be addressed, but this looks like a manageable task. Once problems with sub-Hurd are sorted out, a jail(2) syscall and command tools like FreeBSD's could be added to glibc as well. -- Farid Hajji. http://www.farid-hajji.net/address.html _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
