Roger Leigh, le Mon 23 Apr 2012 10:43:00 +0100, a écrit : > > They are already there. > > OK. I was informed otherwise when I was working on all the > tmpfs-related code.
Things evolve, we do spend time on useful features :) Tmpfs has recently been fixed. > Does Hurd support ext3/4 yet? No. > > > - sysfs > > > > Err, I don't think it's a good idea to let people think it is ok to use > > extremely-linuxish things there. > > kFreeBSD supports both linprocfs and linsysfs. Linsysfs is extremely small: from what I see on asdfasdf, it only exposes two bits of information for each scsi host. > If you're going to integrate well with the rest of the Debian system, > the reality is that this stuff is needed. /sys is a moving thing, and full of a lot of details. I believe BSD people will agree that they don't want to spend time on that. > > > Yet we are carrying > > > around large amounts of code and extra initscripts to generate > > > mtab for the only system which does not support /proc/mounts > > > (Hurd). A procfs translator (even an incomplete one) would > > > allow all this (barely tested) cruft to be dropped. > > > > We have an incomplete procfs already. It doesn't have /proc/mounts, > > because it's not a trivial thing to implement: since mounts are > > distributed, there is no central place where filesystems are to be > > recorded. There are plans to somehowe build one. In the meanwhile > > things are working already. I don't think spending time on a feature > > just to remove some existing code is the best way to spend our time, > > either. > > It's not just a case of "working already". I spent several days > writing and testing all that code. From scratch. Just for Hurd. Ah, we weren't aware of that. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120423095023.gc4...@type.famille.thibault.fr
