Re: boot the Hurd with Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Samuel,  :-)

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès, on lun. 13 nov. 2017 11:42:01 +0100, wrote:
>> PS: guix-daemon no longer depends on ‘lsof’, but it still depends on /proc.
>
> Does our procfs have everything it needs already?

It needs /proc/PID/{exe,cwd,fd,maps,environ}:

  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/nix/scripts/list-runtime-roots.in

That said, it’s quite optional: the worst that can happen if one of
these things is missing is that something can be reclaimed “prematurely”
from /gnu/store.  I say “prematurely” with quotes because users are
supposed to register “real” GC roots anyway, as with ‘guix package -i’
or ‘guix build --root’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.