Re: Hurdish applications for persistence

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address@hidden wrote:
>    A problem here is that programs aren't and shouldn't be written
>    solely for the Hurd.
>
> They should! What would the point be of the GNU system if they aren't?
> This is a GNU project after all, and the goal is to produce a concise
> system, the GNU system.  Not a bunch of programs that can run on any
> platform out there.  The only thing one should worry about is
> portability across architectures, but across systems it is pointless.

They _shouldn't_! Why do we have standards like POSIX.

>    But chroot exists, and if you replace it by a library call, nobody
>    will use it.
>
> One can also always fix chroot()/file_reparent().
>
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