Re: It runs!

[Michael Banck]

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 09:30:34PM +0300, Sergey Bugaev wrote:
> Hello everyone, I've got some exciting news :)
> 
> /bin/sh runs!!!
> 
> Things start up all the way -- exec, proc, auth, all that. Then
> /hurd/startup exec's /libexec/console-run; I placed a little shell
> script there. The shell (dash) starts up, loads the script, and starts
> executing it! And (this required another tweak to TLS) it manages to
> fork and exec a command!
> 
> The command being "settrans -ac /dev/mach-console /hurd/streamio
> console" -- and that seems to (mostly?) succeed too, streamio starts
> up and settrans does call file-set-trans on the ext2fs. But I haven't
> yet been able to receive any actual output from the shell or
> subsequent commands on the console.
> 
> But -- we now have enough of Unix working to fork and to run /bin/sh!
> How cool is that?!

Woot!


Michael