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SubjectRe: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ?


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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