On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:53:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:32:02PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > Note that we only Suggests: os-prober and not Recommend: it like Ubuntu > > > does because of 491872 > > > So if anyone want to help that we Recommend it again, then help the > > > os-prober maintainers to fix that bug. > > > > I don't know the specifics, but wouldn't it be possible for os-prober to > > create its own private mount name space (see clone(2), CLONE_NEWNS), > > and do the probing inside that name space? That way the desktop > > environments would not be able to intercept it. > > Excellent idea, thanks; I'm looking into doing this now.
FYI, using unshare(2) is easier than clone(2) for this purpose. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
