Re: firmlinks and chroots

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:26:55AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> * Passive translators can be stored in inodes, when they are
> encountered the filesystem propagates the request to install an active
> translator to the translator server of that user.  (This matches most
> closely what is happening now, just that the active translator is not
> started by the filesystem but by the user owning the node).

I actually considered this variant right after reading your original
proposal. Seems quite promising to me :-)

> * Passive translators can be stored in inodes.  The C library can see
> these settings, and either start an active translator itself (this
> works best with private namespaces or private parts of a global
> namespace---it's basically what's going on magically with /dev/fd/N,
> just that there is no extra process needed), or contact the
> "translator server" to let it start an active translator.  (Extended
> attributes could hint at what should happen).  This does only work
> easily for nodes owned by the same user.
> 
>   If the node is owned by another user, that other user's translator
>   server needs to be contacted instead.

This is a more fundamental change. I have no opinion on it yet...

-antrik-