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Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing execut


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:56:10 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Hello,

Justus Winter, le Thu 15 Aug 2013 18:41:50 +0200, a écrit :
> Remove support for transparently unbzip2ing executables from the exec
> server. The code in question makes the exec server unnecessarily
> complex and since the exec server is an essential process, crashing it
> makes /hurd/init crash the whole system.

Right. The feature is however still somehow interesting, so I prefered
to just disable the support by default, so users can easily build their
own exec server and set it up for themselves if they wish.

Samuel



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