From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org,
Manolis Ragkousis <manolis837@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GSoC ideas
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:12:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160302101227.GF2815@var.bordeaux.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760x5gpif.fsf@inria.fr>
Ludovic Courtès, on Wed 02 Mar 2016 11:09:28 +0100, wrote:
> Manolis Ragkousis <manolis837@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.
Samuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-02 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-06 11:38 GSoC ideas Pjotr Prins
2016-02-06 12:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-06 18:54 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-07 10:16 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-09 20:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 20:32 ` myglc2
2016-02-08 10:45 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-02-08 11:37 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-08 17:24 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-08 18:45 ` Thompson, David
2016-02-08 19:47 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-08 20:43 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-09 10:36 ` Installing Guix on foreign distros Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-10 8:53 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-02-10 9:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-10 12:44 ` Jookia
2016-02-11 5:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-11 10:54 ` Bootstrapping Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-23 23:00 ` GSoC ideas Diane Trout
2016-02-23 23:52 ` Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-24 0:02 ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-24 9:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-24 9:16 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-24 9:36 ` Jookia
2016-02-25 18:15 ` Bootstrap binaries Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-25 20:26 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-26 23:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 10:51 ` Jookia
2016-02-28 15:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 15:10 ` Jookia
2016-02-29 5:22 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-29 10:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-24 0:32 ` Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Diane Trout
2016-02-24 7:04 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-24 17:20 ` Thompson, David
2016-02-24 19:36 ` Diane Trout
2016-02-25 10:30 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-26 1:27 ` Diane Trout
2016-02-24 19:14 ` GSoC ideas Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-24 21:24 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-24 21:56 ` Diane Trout
2016-02-25 18:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-26 1:28 ` Diane Trout
2016-03-25 20:52 ` myglc2
2016-02-09 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-09 22:17 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-10 6:12 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-11 2:11 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-11 10:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-11 17:59 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-21 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 19:07 ` myglc2
2016-02-11 11:46 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-02-11 17:32 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-12 11:48 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-02-11 17:36 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-28 22:12 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-02-28 23:33 ` Richard Braun
2016-03-02 10:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-02 10:12 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2016-03-02 21:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-02 22:06 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-21 12:09 ` [GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU Hurd draft Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-22 0:49 ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-23 13:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 16:55 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 11:18 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 11:38 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 12:36 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 12:49 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-24 13:55 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 14:30 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-04 15:09 ` GSoC ideas Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-05 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-06 23:53 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-02-07 5:51 ` Pjotr Prins
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