Re: [PATCH v4 10/11] 9p: darwin: meson: Allow VirtFS on Darwin

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Montag, 7. Februar 2022 02:05:32 CET Will Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 4:22 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> 
> wrote:
> > On 6/2/22 21:07, Will Cohen wrote:
> > > From: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
> > > [Michael Roitzsch: - Rebase for NixOS]
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Roitzsch <reactorcontrol@icloud.com>
> > > [Will Cohen: - Rebase to master]
> > > Signed-off-by: Will Cohen <wwcohen@gmail.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > > [Will Cohen: - Add check for pthread_fchdir_np to virtfs]
> > > Signed-off-by: Will Cohen <wwcohen@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >   fsdev/meson.build |  1 +
> > >   meson.build       | 14 ++++++++++----
> > >   2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > -have_virtfs_proxy_helper = have_virtfs and have_tools
> > > +have_virtfs_proxy_helper = targetos == 'linux' and have_virtfs and
> > 
> > have_tools
> > 
> > Why do you restrict the proxy-helper to Linux?
>
> Only because porting the proxy-helper to macOS is outside the scope of this
> particular patch. While some initial concepts around it have been
> considered by some of the contributors to this patch, those implementations
> weren't tested enough and the security implications weren't considered in
> full. We assume that this could be an additional implementation later on,
> if the functionality is considered important down the road.

In general that's fine with me. I would have probably made that
"targetos != 'darwin'" instead of "targetos == 'linux'", but I leave that up 
to you.

On the long term we will probably deprecate the 9p 'proxy' fs driver anyway. 
While it had some good ideas, being realistic though: nobody has worked on the 
9p proxy driver/backend for many years and it is not in good shape.

I can imagine that due to the ground being laid by these series, that we will 
also open 9p for BSD, but that should be done a bit later and hence does not 
belong into these series.

But once again: it would not have hurt to make your intentions clear either in 
the commit log or by in-source comment. :)

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck