On 10/21/2014 01:49 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hey, > > GNOME has had discussions with kernel developers in the past, and, > fortunately, in some cases we were able to make headway. > > There are however a number of items that we still don't have solutions > for, items that kernel developers might not realise we'd like to rely > on, or don't know that we'd make use of if merged. > > I've posted this list at: > https://wiki.gnome.org/BastienNocera/KernelWishlist > > Let me know on-list or off-list if you have any comments about those, so > I can update the list.
I don't know much about desktop environment infrastructure, but I think the kernel probably already has a lot of what's needed for LinuxApps. Tools like Sandstorm [1] (shameless plug, but it's a good example here) can already sandbox normal-ish programs, and those sandboxes can be launched without privilege [2]. Why is kdbus needed? Why are overlays better than, say, btrfs lightweight copies here? Also, overlayfs might actually make it for 3.19. [1] sandstorm.io [2] https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/master/src/sandstorm/supervisor-main.c%2B%2B As for childfs, I implemented procfs polling a couple years ago, but it never went anywhere: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1840e47fc4113af16989a4250d98bed62a9bce53.1354559528.git.l...@amacapital.net If that would help, I can try to dust it off and get it in to the kernel. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
