On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Al Viro wrote: > > FWIW, two things I _really_ want dead and gone are > * timod (or full rewrite of that animal; current one is badly racy > and plays fast and loose with way too many place in VFS guts) > * altroot (use chroot, damnit, and bind whatever you need in there) I heartily concur about the "altroot" thing. It should die. Removing that part from the Solaris/SunOS emulation is probably worthwhile, and then eventually when/if we end up having a working unionfs, that (along with solaros/sunos-emulation specific mounts) should be able to replace the need for altroot. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html