Re: Hurdish applications for persistence

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:05 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
>    Why _doesn't_ chroot just build a sub hurd?
> 
> Because setting up a sub-hurd involves a lot of work.  First you need
> a image of the drive you wish to use, then you need to copy a _fully
> bootable_ system onto that image.  And only then can you actually use
> the sub-hurd.
> 
> It would be better to just not recommend chroot() on the GNU system,
> and implement a easier way for setting up sub-hurds.

Yes, but it would be even better to have a really cheap, ubiquitous
confinement mechanism that is the normal way of running things.

shap