Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:42:29 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ? |
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> AV> Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... We don't need to implement Weirdnix - Dave Cutler > AV> had already done that. > > Hmm. I've heard that Unix also existed as well long before Linux was > implemented...
Search on the net for "weirdnix", OK? It's amusing, honest.
> AV> The whole Missed'em'V IPC thing is a completely fucked up API (OK, as the > AV> whole Missed'em'V API is) and we'ld better add a filesystem, and mount it > AV> during the boot like every honest UNIX should do with filesystems. > > Linux HAS SVR4's IPC. What it does not have is POSIX's IPC. And what you want > to do with chroot, BTW ? YOU were one who complained about problems with devfs > in chroot'ed environment AFAIK. And YOU want still more such problems ??
For a filesystem with flat namespace that doesn't try to do all this foo-on-demand mess multiple mounts _are_ easy. So... not a valid reason to stuff lookup code with even more ad-hackery. If you want namespaces - say so. When we'll have SMP-safe dcache - fine, they'll go. Until then... Thanks, but No Thanks.
> AV> But doing it via magic names? Yuk. _Please_, don't do that. > > Ok. What's alternative ? BTW I can not do this (and it was Linus's idea, not > mine after all).
man 8 mount
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