linux-um archives
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop
FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools!
Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click
_______________________________________________
User-mode-linux-devel mailing list
User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel

      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]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20040727031320.GD3792@alcor.net \
    --to=mdz@debian.org \
    --cc=user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox