Manolis Ragkousis, le Thu 02 Jul 2015 16:38:54 +0300, a écrit : > > 4. Instead of sitting idle watching build logs ;-), it Would Be Nice™ > > to implement the ‘mount’ and ‘umount’ functions for GNU/Hurd in > > libc, with support for MS_BIND using /hurd/firmlink. > > Of course libc hacking can be quite involved. So ideally Samuel, > > Thomas, and others would give you detailed guidance and/or hack > > power. What do people think? > > Yes, I think now it's the right time to start this. Expect questions > as I work on this. :-) > Meanwhile if the hurd guys have something to point out, please do. :-)
Note that this is listed on the "contributing" page of the wiki, with a link to the glibc open_issues page describing a bit more details. > > Another can of worms I forgot to mention is <hurd/paths.h>, which > > assumes that translators live in /hurd, whereas we’ll rather have them > > in /gnu/store/…/hurd. > > A question. Isn't it possible, that this will break the Hurd expected > behavior? The Hurd is supposed to be flexible, so this is supposed to work. If not then that needs to be fixed, not the way you're doing things :) Samuel
