Re: AW: AW: how to update /hurd/ext2fs?

[Wolfgang Jaehrling <pro-linux@gmx.de>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:30:00PM +0100, Michael.Ziegler@materna.de wrote:
> mziegler@hurd:~$ showtrans -t /hurd/*
> /hurd/ext2fs: /dev/hd1s1
> /hurd/ext2fs.static: /dev/hd1s1
> 
> Sorry for that, seems that i've missaranged settrans arguments some hours
> ago? Very stupid. As you can see i'm new to translators...

Maybe you're the first one to make this mistake, but I doubt you will
be the last one, so maybe the Hurd should behave different in such a
situation.

So, should "settrans" refuse to set a translator if the translating
program (in this case /dev/hd1s1) is not executable or is there any
reason not to do this?

Sure, if you set a passive translator and then clear the execute bit
of the translating program, the same problem will occur when accessing
the translated node, but that is far less likely than a user getting
the order of arguments wrong.

Cheers,
Wolfgang

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