Re: firmlink deleting files on boot / interpretation of find -xdev switch

[Richard Braun]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:44PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> I haven't been able to find any other places on my system where find uses
> -xdev; just bootclean.sh, but my search has not been exhaustive.
> 
> Obviously there's been a long history behind this problem, and I'm new on
> the scene.  Does this change make sense?

Any solution that isn't a global system solution is doomed to fail,
since this problem may affect any RPC, including those that don't
exist yet.

> On a related note, how do you find the owner of a passive translator?  I
> expected either showtrans or ls to provide that information (perhaps with a
> verbose switch), but it had eluded me...

I'm not sure you can from outside the parent.

Besides, note that Justus and I are currently pushing towards the use
of "translator records" instead of "passive translators" to more
accurately reflect what they truely are.

The solution, whatever it is, should focus only on determining whether
a server can be trusted or not. This should affect everything (servers,
(active) translators and translator records).

-- 
Richard Braun