On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:37:01PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:09:08PM -0400, Richard Kreuter wrote: > > > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:57:42AM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > (2) statically linked servers in /hurd may be named foo.static, so > > if the only auth, exec, init, proc servers in /hurd are statically > > linked, then they may be named auth.static, etc. Seem sensible? > > I don't know what the above [.static] really means. FHS 1.2: 'Optional components of filenames are enclosed in "[" and "]"' > It should not forbid putting exectuables that can be used as Hurd > translators into /bin, btw. Should there be an explicit note that server binaries may be located in /bin, at the present stage of development? > I don't think it should list translators auth, proc etc... the startup > procedure is defined by the bootstrap filesystem, and the technical details > can change. <snip> > Again, I don't see why the FHS should contain implementation details about > the current Hurd system, although this level of detail might be what the FHS > expects to define, so sorry if I am too restrictive. Is the objection that the FHS ought not contain implementation details about the contents of /hurd at all, or that it shouldn't base those details on the current implementation, or both? Either way, if there are no objections, I'll excise the requirements under /hurd for now. > However, please consider that the bootstrap filesystem (which is the only > file beside the kernel that needs to be linked statically) is loaded by > GRUB. If you have ext2fs.static on a boot disk, CD Rom or network storage, > you don't need one in the filesystem at run time at all. Good point. > > > Never heard of /servers/startup.. Where did you get this from? (Can't > > > find anything in the archives) > > > > Thomas Bushnell told me to look through paths.h. My source is old, > > though. Is this faulty? > > I think it doesn't exist, although it might in the future. Definitely leave > it out for now. Is there any desire to 'reserve' the location /servers/startup for some future use? Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
