On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:09:37PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > We have various issues with the active translators' stdout/stderr: > > - When mounting /proc from /etc/init.d/rc, stdout/stderr is closed, and > thus as soon as e.g. mtab reports a warning, it gets SIGLOST and dies. > - When mounting the cdrom image from debian installer scripts, the > script is not considered finished since the isofs translator is still > running and possibly emitting output. > > So, what should we do about stdout/stderr output? Do we require their > output to be explicitly redirected by callers of mount and settrans? > In the mount case, people used to Linux will not think of doing it, so > perhaps we need it to do it for the user?
I think we could have a default log server for that. We could make it a gsoc project. It should make a good entry project. -- Richard Braun
