Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> skribis: > 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.
Do you have examples of GNU/Linux uses that would make no sense? Other options include calling out to the ‘settrans’ command (inelegant IMO), writing Guile bindings for some of the Hurd libraries, and/or some sort of a MiG in Scheme (neat but takes some time!). Ludo’.
