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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:31:41 +0100
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Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s, 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.
>>=20
>> I think an ideal situation would be if libc provides =E2=80=98mount=E2=
=80=99 and
>> =E2=80=98umount=E2=80=99, with MS_BIND implemented in terms of firmlinks.
>>=20
>> I remember Roland was not thrilled with the idea of adding =E2=80=98moun=
t=E2=80=99 and
>> =E2=80=98umount=E2=80=99, 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 =E2=80=98settrans=E2=80=99 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=E2=80=99.