On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On the other hand, fsck seems to be a good example of a program that can't > do much for the unprivileged user.
That's not true. You can have disk image files you might want to check for correctness. In the Hurd, any user can boot a subhurd (a self contained system with its own critical server processes and root fs, much better than chroot) and wreck it. With fsck you can controll afterwards if the bug you traced down in the subhurd (with gdb from the parent hurd) was corrupting the filesystem. There are probably some emulators on Linux that will benefit from this as well. The distinction between sbin and bin is not a hard one. It is soft based on experience and the common case. It's also basically nonsense, because of the 2176 binaries in my path, I use a couple of dozen regularly, and having 300 further, even useless, binaries wouldn't distract me in any way. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]