Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB devicealloc ation) ) | Date | 8 Oct 1999 15:37:37 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.GSO.4.10.9910080409500.10704-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>> You don't need ownership, except as root, on a filesystem to boot >> a Linux+devfs system. It might not resemble a ``standard'' Unix >> system, but one of the spiffy things about a Unix kernel is that >> it can be adapted to a wide variety of environment. > > Ho-hum... /tmp without sticky bit is an interesting animal,
The sticky bit hasn't always been there, and when I was at university 20 years ago we had a bunch of machines running BSD 2.7 with /tmp being 777.
>not to >mention the nice stuff in /var (sparse files),
What sparse files live in /var? The big spaceeaters in /var on my machines are X11, spool (==mail), and adm (==log), for the machines that don't spit syslog off to a logserver.
>/usr/bin (suid/sgid not to >root),
Why not? /usr/bin survives swimmingly even if it's owned by root.
>ditto for long names, ditto for cases-sensitivity, etc.
I don't think you need either of these.
> BTW, _what_ are those purposes? I'm really curious.
I'm thinking on the order of a native Wine-over-Windows install disk that drops the kernel, enough scaffolding to load X and Wine, and the glue to bring up the windowing system without having to log in onto an existing Windows machine. This gives me the existing windows interface (good) with a Unix kernel (double-plus good.)
plus fat takes a little less room than ext2fs on a floppy, so that plus devfs may be enough so I can shoehorn the bloated elephant that will be 2.6 onto my install floppy and still have enough room to fit the installer and pcmcia utilities.
____ david parsons \bi/ this is assuming I can fit 2.6 onto a 1.44mb floppy. \/
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