Parke <parke.ne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 9:54 PM Perry Hutchison via rsync > <rsync@lists.samba.org> wrote: > > ... I'm wondering if anyone here > > knows of an implementation of rsync client for Chrome OS in normal > > (not developer) mode, i.e. as an app or extension. > > Have you tried compiling rsync statically (on a non-Chrome OS system) > and seeing if it will run on Chrome OS? Linux is Linux, after all. > ... > (I also don't know if you can even run any third-party binary > executables on Chrome OS if you are not in developer mode.)
I very much doubt that Chrome OS would make this possible, given its focus on security. (If it _were_ possible to exec a user-supplied file in normal mode, one could do all sorts of interesting things with executable shell scripts -- like setting DISPLAY to point to some other machine.) While it would certainly be possible to import a blob that happened to be a binary for some CPU type (into, say, the Downloads directory), without developer mode there is no chmod command and thus no way to mark that binary as executable. Also, I suspect that user-accessible filesystems are mounted no-exec. I suspect what I'm looking for is a reimplementation of rsync (or a useful subset, e.g. I doubt I need ACL support) in Java. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
