Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 01:57 +0200, Da Zheng wrote:
> I'm trying to make subhurd work without root's permission, so the first 
> task for me is to find the operations need the privilege.

That's a worthy task.

> I have a problem in store_parsed_open().
> I believe store_parse_open() calls dev_open() if the filesystem of 
> subhurd is in a disk.
> The first privilege operation I can find is get_privileged_port() when I 
> look into the code of libstore.

That's right.  To make your project succeed, you'll need to implement a
device master port far more fully than the existing subhurd boot does.

> I wrote a proc proxy, so I can track what RPC routines in process.defs 
> are called (but the main purpose of the proc proxy is to give a program 
> the master device port).
> When I tried to run the subhurd with the normal user, I got the 
> "Permission denied" error when store_parse_open() is called but I didn't 
> see proc_getprivports() was called in the proc proxy.
> I wonder where is the privilege operation?

I'm having trouble understanding exactly what you were expecting or
where this error was coming from.

It sounds as if you got EPERM from store_parse_open, but
proc_getprivports is not being called, so you are having trouble
understanding why you got an error message at all.

This will depend much on what the store specification was which was
passed to store_parse_open.  Can you provide more details?

Thomas