Re: [PATCH,HURD] Allow to override the /servers/socket path

2010-09-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Agreed on the environment variable issues. Roland McGrath, le Mon 20 Sep 2010 23:20:27 -0700, a écrit : > The Hurdish thing to do is to run with a crdir that has > /servers/socket interposed with whatever you wanted. Does such a tool (to interpose only some given path) exist already? Samuel

Re: [PATCH,HURD] Allow to override the /servers/socket path

2010-09-21 Thread Roland McGrath
> Does such a tool (to interpose only some given path) exist already? The story we always told the kiddies was that it would be called "unionfs" or something, and be fabulously configurable.

Re: [PATCH,HURD] Allow to override the /servers/socket path

2010-09-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roland McGrath, le Tue 21 Sep 2010 18:32:36 -0700, a écrit : > > Does such a tool (to interpose only some given path) exist already? > > The story we always told the kiddies was that it would be called "unionfs" > or something, and be fabulously configurable. Well, right :) But it could be also r

Re: [PATCH,HURD] Allow to override the /servers/socket path

2010-09-21 Thread Roland McGrath
> Well, right :) But it could be also realized as a very simple wrapper > that you would easily call as simply as the environment variable > proposed by Zheng Da. Of course, any scheme built around "settrans --chroot" is doing things the Hurdish way. Thanks, Roland