Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:00:16PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 04:16:04 schrieb olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:

> > It is important though to point out that I only intend to confine
> > certain applications which are particularily exposed. 
> 
> Which for example could be done globally by putting a translator on
> top of the applications binary which has the effect that whenever
> someone tries to execute the application, he instead executes "subdo
> application". 
> 
> Or the same but cleaner :) 
> 
> Can a translator be used to do this without using the shell and
> "subdo" route? 

Should be doable; but what's the point? Just use a wrapper script that
launches the subenvironment with the application...

-antrik-