Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 12:32:00AM -0400, Mark Eichin wrote:
> > > I presume by that you mean Linux is incapable of this; if so, you're
> > > misled. Here's an implementation of it:
> >
> > No, it isn't - in fact, I filed a bug report on that particular
> > aspect. Namely, cfs needs root [mostly because it subverts NFS in
> > order to talk to the kernel] so it does *not* let a user set it up "on
> > their own".
>
> Nor does the hurd, since you need root to install that too. Argument
> invalid (and rather silly). No user ever does anything without the
> permission of the sysadmin (be that logging in, running binaries, or
> whatever).
Huh? The point is that on the Hurd, you don't need to be a special
user to do such things.
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