Ludovic Courtès, on Wed 02 Mar 2016 11:09:28 +0100, wrote: > Manolis Ragkousis <manolis...@gmail.com> skribis: > > 1) Merge wip-hurd branch. > > 2) Make the daemon handle chroot builds on the Hurd. > > Note here that on the Hurd, one does not need to be root to achieve > > isolation, so I should change the daemon to use this capability. > > I think an ideal situation would be if libc provides ‘mount’ and > ‘umount’, with MS_BIND implemented in terms of firmlinks. > > I remember Roland was not thrilled with the idea of adding ‘mount’ and > ‘umount’, but it would clearly help porting.
It can both help and hurt. Roland's concern is that we will probably not want to provide a mount() that behaves like Linux, because in some cases it may just not even make sense. So the "ported" software that would try to use it would just fail. Samuel
