Hello,
This week, KernelTrap spoke with Neal Walfield of the GNU/Hurd development
team. He offers a fascinating look into the Hurd, and talks about the Debian
GNU/Hurd project. It makes for quite an interesting read...
The full interview is available here:
Has the start-stop-daemon been hacked so that it can start servers
with no privs yet? If not, that might be a cool project for someone
looking to enhance an important app.
For those not so familiar, start-stop-daemon is used by various init
scripts to make sure the PID is recorded, and that the
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:48:17AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
Has the start-stop-daemon been hacked so that it can start servers
with no privs yet? If not, that might be a cool project for someone
looking to enhance an important app.
Running a unix daemon as no user is not trivial. Neal and
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I see that proc_setlogin and proc_getlogin are deprecated, process.defs says
they are there for historic reasons only, and I am not expected to
understand this. Nevertheless, they are implemented as setlogin() and
getlogin() in the C library, and
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:06:43PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Neal and me actually plan to extend the feature. We feel that a user should
be able to control tasks running without user ids from anywhere within the
system (say, from another
The current gcc-3.0 package in unstable has libffi enabled for the
Hurd. Does libffi build on the Hurd, or should libffi disabled again?
Thanks, Matthias
I cross-compiled Mach and booted it (I think I installed the new kernel
right, anyway) and upon doing so the system told me that my primary hard
disk partition doesn't have a file in /dev. Could this be because Mach
doesn't support my CMD649 ATA-100 controller? Thank you
- Josh
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