Re: Base set is coming closer...
Hi!
>>>>> Mark Kettenis writes:
MB> sysvinit (? is there some hurd-ism to care about?),
MK> the Hurd init is BSD style and has a lot of Hurd-isms. Is a
MK> System V like init really necessary?
It should be easy to change the Hurd init so that it understands sysv
conventions, but there are more important things to do right now.
MK> I believe Hurd filesystem translators do periodic syncing
MK> themselves. At least there is some code in libdiskfs to do that.
Yes, they do this, so nobody has to worry about sync/update or
whatever.
MB> Is it possible to include an empty file in the package, or should
MB> it be created in the post install script?
MK> # touch /servers/exec
MK> # settrans ...
# settrans --create --go-away /servers/exec /hurd/exec
creates /servers/exec if it doesn't already exist, and tells the old
/hurd/exec translator to go away if it is active (which it will be on
a running system).
MB> Then I think I'll try to understand why the current hurd
MB> snapshot does not work. A fresh snapshot from the developers
MB> would be fine, too, if they think they have fixed some things
MB> (Gordon, could you please check this?).
I'm just as in-the-dark as you are about this issue. I haven't had
time yet to try running or debugging recent snapshots. devnull is
working on this, though, and he'll probably make some progress in the
next week or so.
MK> http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/hurddev/
Excellent! Thanks a lot, Mark,
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