Olaf Buddenhagen, on Mon 19 Sep 2016 21:52:38 +0200, wrote:
> Note that for the container solutions (lightweight virtualisation) I'm
> envisioning for the Hurd -- with things like sub-users -- we are likely
> to need some kind of auth delegation scheme or something like that;
Well, AIUI we already
Olaf Buddenhagen, on Mon 19 Sep 2016 23:43:55 +0200, wrote:
> I don't know which threads you have read exactly; but there have been
> pretty conclusive discussions on this issue IMHO.
I'd be really good if such conclusions would have been written somewhere
else than a list thread :/
Samuel
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:55:44PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Richard Braun wrote:
> > This was famously shown with the example of the
> > firmlink translator used in /tmp, which would cause the removal of
> > any file targeted by the firmlink on /tmp c
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 02:49:31PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Richard Braun wrote:
[...]
> > The solution, whatever it is, should focus only on determining whether
> > a server can be trusted or not. This should affect everything (servers,
> > (active) t
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 02:16:12PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Linux' notion of nice values is already not
> really POSIX for root :) (POSIX doesn't define negative nice values).
It's been a while; but I'm almost confident that according to my last
reading of the POSIX man pages, the Lin
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:15:48AM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
> OK, this comes from the fact that io_map directly provides memory
> objects indeed... Do we actually want to pass them around ? How
> come calls like memory_object_init (specifically meant to be used
> between the kernel and the
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 12:34:09PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote:
> I recommend against shutting down subhurds.
This is a regression, though -- I'm pretty sure I used `halt` and/or
`reboot` in subhurds in the past. (Sometimes it failed; but it never
broke my main instance IIRC...)
-antrik-
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:27:05PM +, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> If I understand
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant correctly,
> the FSF does not want more than around 15 lines of code without a copyright
> assignment.
The FSF doesn't actually requi
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 10:29:54PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> Here's my proposal for dealing with the authentication issue.
>
> There should be an extra send right passed from the auth server, to the
> client, that the client then passes along to the server in its
> authentication requ
