Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

[Richard Braun]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:03:16AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> I'd rather avoid such kind of autodetection: if the payload happens
> to be an ELF file, gnumach will do things with it that we didn't
> necessarily wanted. Some time ago (5 Sep 2011), while working on the
> initrd part for the Debian installer, I thought about introducing a
> data-task-create command, which would tell gnumach to just load the file
> into a task at vaddr 0, without doing anything else about it. That way,
> userland would be able to just kill the task when it does not need the
> data any more.  AIUI this is the same kind of usage that you'd have,
> what do you think?

Personally, I like this better.

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Richard Braun