Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-30 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 29 September 2006 19:46, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:51:43PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:14:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: To make some writable tmpfs available

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-30 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 28 September 2006 21:47, Mattia Dongili wrote: Thanks Petter for writing, I was going to followup to the sysvinit bug :) I'm Cc-ing upstream too. I don't think it uses shm* functions, as far as I can tell the /dev/shm location is sensible to $TMP, $TEMP or $TEMPDIR, thus

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-29 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Thu, September 28, 2006 10:19 pm, Petter Reinholdtsen said: [Mattia Dongili] Well, I'd actually prefer if you could remove the noexec flag from /dev/shm. I understand the security reasons given in the bugreport but I'd prefer avoid having to deal with one more Debian-only (is it?) thing

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-29 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:51:43PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:14:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: To make some writable tmpfs available to those in need of such system, and to avoid using

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-29 Thread Jeff Dike
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:46:01PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: Thinking of a Debian only fix for the above, does simply playing with default_tmpdir in arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c (probably in which_tmpdir()) suffice to use /lib/init/rw/.ramfs as default? (Yes I should try it... will try to find

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-28 Thread Mattia Dongili
Thanks Petter for writing, I was going to followup to the sysvinit bug :) I'm Cc-ing upstream too. On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:14:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Hi I am one of the sysvinit maintainers. Recently we changed the mount options of /dev/shm/, and got a bug report about

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mattia Dongili] Well, I'd actually prefer if you could remove the noexec flag from /dev/shm. I understand the security reasons given in the bugreport but I'd prefer avoid having to deal with one more Debian-only (is it?) thing given the soon to come general freeze. I am considering this for

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:14:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: To make some writable tmpfs available to those in need of such system, and to avoid using /dev/shm/ which is reserved for the shm-functions, I just uploaded