Re: Inheritance of "/", auth and proc handles

[Moritz Schulte]

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@utbm.fr> writes:

> Now, I'm trying to understand how those three handles are actually
> passed to new tasks.

I think the interface you are searching for is hurd/exec_startup.defs.
Also have a look at [glibc]/hurd/hurdstartup.c, where the startup
informations are fetched via exec_startup_get_info.

> The exec interface has an obsolete call called "exec_init" that has
> a auth handle and a proc handle argument.

Why do you think that RPC is obsolete?  It is used in
libdiskfs/boot-start.c.

                moritz
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