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RE: Need name and functionality suggestions for a new utility
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Need name and functionality suggestions for a new utility
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:17:40 +1000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> So, we eventually came up with the idea of something like a 'chroot'
> utility where you could say something like:
>
> cygisolate MyOwnCywin bash
>
> and that bash and all of its children would use MyOwnCygwin as the
> registry key rather than "Cygwin".
>
> This would mean that you could have an isolated set of mounts which
> would not be touched by something not in the cygisolate "tree".
>
> The concept is similar to chroot. It is so similar that I'm tempted
> to just add a switch to chroot to handle this but I hate hacking up
> existing utilities for Cygwin's purposes.
Well, chroot doesn't address shmid's and the like, and this will need
to.
> So, I've got everything written to accomodate this usage but I'm stuck
> on a name. I don't like cygisolate but I can't think of
> anything else.
>
> Does anyone have an idea for a name? Or even an idea for more
> functionality for this utility? Now that I think of it, this utility
> should also change the shared memory id so that there are no conflicts
> between this cygwin and another running instance.
Also mmap id's, and any named objects that are file path/name based will
need alteration (prefix with 'MyOwnCygwin' ?). The cygwin daemon is
going to need adjustment for this as well.
> cygjail maybe?
> cygisland?
> cygme?
cygme with your coding trick? (aplogies to Ian Dury).
I like isolate, it's pretty clear, and shouldn't create mental conflict
with 'jail' or 'chroot'. Also, howabout 'cygvirtual' or 'cygalternate' ?
Or even 'cygXP :}'.
mycyg might be another one.
Rob