On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:50:51PM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > I'm not concerned about the mtab implementation. I'm concerned about > the RPC's interface. > > I'm not sure why you think chroot is only for compatibility and why we > therefore shouldn't correctly support it.
First, it's not POSIX. Then, its use depends on everything that requires proper file system setup to correctly work, which on the Hurd is about everything since the file system is the directory of practically all services (but even on other systems, services provided by file systems are affected). To finish with, this RPC is really intended to implement mtab, and I don't see why the current behaviour is incorrect. >From my point of view, this problem raises an important design issue of the Hurd : in one mail [1], you state translators should never impersonate users, but here, it really seems necessary to make the translator temporarily inherit some of the users' properties such as its file system root. Or, if the translator merely acts as a registry and redirects users, this probably means the mtab implementation needs to be part of glibc, which seems to be an impractical way of extending system functionality ... -- Richard Braun [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2013-07/msg00214.html
