Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 04:34:38PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > 1) People that telnet to the box can go around and cat files (even > > /etc/passwd!) without even logging in. > > The Hurd has the concept of a user who is not logged in. A fourth set of rwx > permissions. Those are set to r-x by default it seems. The right fix would > be to modify chmod etc to support those flags and make use of it.
What I need is a guide to these things. I know the top-level (generic microkernel vs. macrokernel) and the low-level (different commands, from the quickstart guides), but not the in-between (ie, what is a stranslator? what can it do? why do I use socket/2 when I set up the network? what is socket/2?) > (It's not a bug, it's a feature.) OK :-) > > 3) there is no proc > > proc is by no means any standard in any way. There is the libps library if > you need to talk to the proc server. If you want to write a proc fs emulator > for linux binaries, go for it. It can be implemented as a translator :) Right, I just thought df was looking for it :-) -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The 108,694th digit of pi is 5.
