Re: Hurdish applications for persistence

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:41:13 +0200,
Alfred M Szmidt wrote:
> Implement the little firewall thingy then.  If anything, the only pita
> with a sub-hurd is not being able to access the network and stuff like
> that.

[...]

> This is where we differ, you view it as a design fault in the actual
> system, I view it as a design fault (I wouldn't even go that far) in
> chroot.

These two positions are logically inconsistent.  The "little firewall
thingy" requires (to share files) a file_reparent operation that
_effectively works_ in the context of the whole system.  You can not
ask for the one thing and reject the other.

If you were god, you would disappear in a puff of smoke now :)

Thanks,
Marcus