At Mon, 22 Jul 2013 22:49:03 +0200,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
> Neal H. Walfield, le Mon 22 Jul 2013 21:50:02 +0200, a écrit :
> > At Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:25:02 +0200,
> > Justus Winter wrote:
> > > * The translator used to traverse the translator tree and if it
> > > encountered itself, it would
Neal H. Walfield, le Mon 22 Jul 2013 21:50:02 +0200, a écrit :
> At Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:25:02 +0200,
> Justus Winter wrote:
> > * The translator used to traverse the translator tree and if it
> > encountered itself, it would deadlock. This is cleanly solved by
> > comparing the control ports of
At Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:25:02 +0200,
Justus Winter wrote:
> * The translator used to traverse the translator tree and if it
> encountered itself, it would deadlock. This is cleanly solved by
> comparing the control ports of the current node and the mtab
> translator.
I don't think you can rel
At Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:04:47 +0200,
Justus Winter wrote:
> My personal preference would be to run the translator on /proc/mounts
> as unprivileged user created solely for this purpose by default.
This is not how things are done on the Hurd. You don't need an
"unpriviledged user" you just drop al
At Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:04:47 +0200,
Justus Winter wrote:
> My personal preference would be to run the translator on /proc/mounts
> as unprivileged user created solely for this purpose by default. It's
> up to the system administrator to change that if he wishes. I know
> it's not as magically as it
Quoting Richard Braun (2013-07-19 17:41:55)
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 05:25:02PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote:
> > Richard mentioned that revealing mount points does not seem to be a
> > concern on Linux, but arguably on Hurd an active translator is more
> > common than a mount on linux.
>
> Well, t
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 05:25:02PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote:
> Richard mentioned that revealing mount points does not seem to be a
> concern on Linux, but arguably on Hurd an active translator is more
> common than a mount on linux.
Well, that's irrelevant. What matters is that on Linux, mount p
checks works as expected using tmpfs and
nfs for libdiskfs and libnetfs respectively.
For your convenience I've pushed this series to my hurd.git on
darnassus in the branch feature-mtab-translator-v3:
git://darnassus.sceen.net/teythoon/hurd.git
More gory details:
[PATCH 01/17]
