From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manolis Ragkousis Subject: Re: GSoC ideas Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 17:09:06 +0200 Message-ID: <56D9A512.1070003@gmail.com> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> <87mvre2eyz.fsf@gnu.org> <56BC7496.8020409@gmail.com> <8760x5gpif.fsf@inria.fr> <20160302101227.GF2815@var.bordeaux.inria.fr> <87a8mgefcy.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abrLt-0005jn-H0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:09:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abrLq-0003qs-6F for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:09:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a8mgefcy.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org, Samuel Thibault Hey On 03/02/16 23:31, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Do you have examples of GNU/Linux uses that would make no sense? > After a quick look in mount's man page I think that maybe Roland was referring to some flags (like relatime for example) that when passed to mount, expect the Linux kernel to handle the filesystem in a specific way. > 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!). We could have a guile wrapper for the ‘settrans’ command that could cover our needs. Isn't this feasible? WDYT? Manolis