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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Mconsole exec support - rewritten completely
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:13:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040727031320.GD3792@alcor.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407261816.i6QIGSfL001860@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:16:28PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:

> You can maintain this yourself if you want, but it's going nowhere near my
> tree.  I've said why I don't like it, and haven't heard any real arguments
> for it, just whining by people who think parsing login sequences and shell
> prompts is hard.

I wouldn't say "hard"..."nasty" seems more appropriate, or "not robust".
Then again, I don't like the mconsole approach, either.  So far, I've been
running a daemon inside UML which speaks a simple protocol over a UML
channel.  This works OK, but has the disadvantage of requiring specialized
software running under the UML guest.

-- 
 - mdz


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      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-27  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-22 14:53 [uml-devel] [PATCH] Mconsole exec support - rewritten completely BlaisorBlade
2004-07-26 18:16 ` Jeff Dike
2004-07-27  3:13   ` Matt Zimmerman [this message]

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