Subject: Re: bug#41855: [PATCH 1/2] hurd-boot: Create individual translators instead of running MAKEDEV.

From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:44:17 +0200

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hi!

> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> Similarly, "linux-boot" defines "make-essential-device-nodes", which
>> could be called from GNU/Hurd when we cross build a linux VM.
>
> Right.
>
>> Haven't made this change yet, let me know you want; or feel free to make
>> the change yourself :-)
>
> Yeah, we can leave that for later.  :-)

"Good" :-)

>> From 1e27aabb8bf32e85547517e1f0e35f789a08933d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 13:02:13 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] hurd-boot: Create individual translators instead of
>>  running MAKEDEV.
>>
>> * guix/build/utils.scm
>
> Something’s wrong!

Oops, removed this mid-way change-of-mind sublimation.

>> * gnu/build/hurd-boot.scm (make-hurd-device-nodes): Do not create
>> dev/{null,zero,full,random,urandom} mount points.
>> (passive-translator-xattr?, passive-translator-installed?, translated?,
>> set-hurd-device-translators): New procedures.
>> (false-if-EEXIST): New macro.
>> (boot-hurd-system): Use them instead of running MAKEDEV.
>
> [...]
>
>> +(define* (set-translator! file-name command #:optional (mode #o600))
>
> Nitpick: there shouldn’t be a bang here (just like for ‘mkdir’, etc.).

...ah, interesting.  ! is for scheme'y imperativeness.

> Otherwise LGTM, thank you!

Pushed this serie master as f25e8f76fec03e5a31c221e7427d6962ece1aa67

That was all I have all from wip-hurd-vm.  At least until we decide to
risk using the linux xattr patch (looks like that will be in linux-5.8).

Janneke

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