Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
On 19 May 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Passive translators are, by convention, stored in /hurd. It's not
> settrans that lacks a search path capability, but rather the parent
> filesystem that lacks it. And part of that is because the user's
> context is long gone by the time the translator is started. The
> settrans program just squirrels its arguments away into the
> filesystem, and then when the requested node is opened, the specified
> command is run as a translator.
Why can't settrans fetch $ENV{'PATH'}, and squirrel that away?
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