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Re: cgd on root



On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 05:21:06PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 
> There's a hack that can make this kind of approach less unpleasant: in
> principle one can have a fs without mounting root, by making it
> proc0's current directory. This would allow loading keys or whatnot
> from ".". Accesses to "/" would yield ENOENT. Then after mounting root
> it can be told to go away.

Can a hack seem dreadful and elegant at the same time?  Because this one
does.  I like it!

Thor



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