Re: Defualt socket server overriding

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:26:05PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:

> What about a different strategy, one more "hurdish"?  For example, run
> the program in a pseudo-chroot which overrides the behavior of nodes
> inside /servers?

I don't know how much you have read of my previous discussion with Wei
on this matter.

If I correctly understand you proposal, that's more or less what I
suggested by "using a proxy FS server". This is indeed a very powerful
approach, and I'd love to see some mechanism to make it easy to set up
such "pseudo-chroot" environments.

However, I also suggested that the simple approach using environment
variables is not only much easier to implement for the beginning, but
probably also easier to use in simple cases, where you just want to
start a process with a single server replaced.

Thus, I believe that even if we want to have the more powerful/generic
approach using a local name space, it might be worthwhile *also* to
implement the simpler approach initially.

-antrik-