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Re: Hurdish applications for persistence
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
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Re: Hurdish applications for persistence |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:22:17 -0400 |
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:05 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Why _doesn't_ chroot just build a sub hurd?
>
> Because setting up a sub-hurd involves a lot of work. First you need
> a image of the drive you wish to use, then you need to copy a _fully
> bootable_ system onto that image. And only then can you actually use
> the sub-hurd.
>
> It would be better to just not recommend chroot() on the GNU system,
> and implement a easier way for setting up sub-hurds.
Yes, but it would be even better to have a really cheap, ubiquitous
confinement mechanism that is the normal way of running things.
shap
Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, ness, 2005/10/11
Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, ness, 2005/10/11