Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-02 Thread Mike Bristow
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:08:02PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > What sort of fallback behaviour would you want in case of error here? > > > > Just let chroot() either succeed or fail. It's own "fallback behavior" > > in such a case should prove adequate. :) > > Hmm. Failure to chroot == fa

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-01 Thread Mike Smith
> > What sort of fallback behaviour would you want in case of error here? > > Just let chroot() either succeed or fail. It's own "fallback behavior" > in such a case should prove adequate. :) Hmm. Failure to chroot == failure to start init? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a da

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> What sort of fallback behaviour would you want in case of error here? Just let chroot() either succeed or fail. It's own "fallback behavior" in such a case should prove adequate. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of t

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-01 Thread Mike Smith
> > > > Not sure if this is a silly question or not, but could the kernel somehow > > view a specific dir on a ext2fs disk as the freebsd root and boot a > > freebsd system from it? Also being able to access the stuff below the > > I think there's a more general need to have a loader variable w

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> > Not sure if this is a silly question or not, but could the kernel somehow > view a specific dir on a ext2fs disk as the freebsd root and boot a > freebsd system from it? Also being able to access the stuff below the I think there's a more general need to have a loader variable which you can

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-04-30 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam wrote: > On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > >On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:15:47AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 13:44:08 -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > >> > jlemon 2000/04/29 13:44:08 PDT > >> > > >> > Added files: > >>

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-04-29 Thread Adam
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:15:47AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 13:44:08 -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >> > jlemon 2000/04/29 13:44:08 PDT >> > >> > Added files: >> > lib/libstand ext2fs.c >> > Log: >> >