Bug#476184: For the grub maintainers II

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:

> Robert filed already after the upload of grub-legacy a RC bug so it
> doestn't migrate after the usual 10 days to testing.
> 
> Note that we only Suggests: os-prober and not Recommend: it like Ubuntu
> does because of 491872
> So if anyone want to help that we Recommend it again, then help the
> os-prober maintainers to fix that bug.

I don't know the specifics, but wouldn't it be possible for os-prober to
create its own private mount name space (see clone(2), CLONE_NEWNS),
and do the probing inside that name space? That way the desktop
environments would not be able to intercept it.

Gabor

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