Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ?

From: Khimenko Victor (khim@dell.sch57.msk.ru)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 18:03:17 EST


On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > > And as for the hacks like // - sorry, but it was done in _much_ more
> > > elegant way 15 years ago.
> >
> > Which one ?
>
> Sigh... http://inferno.bell-labs.com/plan9/vol2.html. Notice the stuff
> under "Namespaces". Authors: group of little-known BTL guys, some
> Thompson, Ritchie, Pike...
>
This is all great and flashy but I'm not sure if we can do somthing like
this without rewriting of each and every program in system. And I've not
found there answer on simple question: "how this all great picture will
keep up when old innocent unix program will call chroot("/home/username") ?"

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