At Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:16:38 +0800, Wei Shen wrote: > > A nice feature would be the option to use a file descriptor rather > > than a symbolic name. This could take the form fd:X where X is some > > number. This allows for selected access delegation (consider: > > SERVERS_SOCKET_PFINET=fd:3 prog 3</path/to/my/pfinet) and removes a naming > > issue. See section 3.4 of the critique [1] for an example of the problems > > that can arise through the use of symbolic names. > > > I read the section. I am not quite clear about the storage of a file's > translator attributes (I presume that a translator can not be associated > with a file node via other ways than the *file_set_translater > *interface),
Right. > but I think it should be the responsibilty of filesystem servers to replace > the translator path for a chroot process (in *file_set_translater* and * > file_get_translator*). How can it do this? It can't find out what the translated process has access to. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
