Re: Add a new exec_exec_file_name RPC

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Samuel Thibault (2014-04-08 13:50:28)
> Justus Winter, le Tue 08 Apr 2014 13:46:26 +0200, a écrit :
> > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2014-04-08 02:18:13)
> > > Well, I'm not the one to be convinced: it's only Roland which can ack
> > > the glibc part, and thus the whole idea of the RPC addition.  One "just"
> > > needs to explain him why we really need it.
> > 
> > I thought that this patch series was necessary for fakeroot-hurd.
> 
> Perhaps as well, 

No, it's really not.  My build host is running the packages without
this patch series and it is happily building packages using
fakeroot-hurd.

> but it's not the original rationale for the patch, so Roland is
> still with the old justification which was a corner case of shell
> scripts, and still I don't think he was really told what the issue
> is. No, he won't have time to read all of
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28934, we have to give him a clear
> short summary.

Someone else has to do that.  I've been verbally abused by him on this
list before.  If I ever feel the need for that again I'll join the
Linux developer community instead.

If someone else wants to pick up, this version of the patch series is
a good start.

Justus