FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: install haiku-os

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Hansson <lars-openbeos-misc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Plüss Roland wrote:
> > has a Un*x under the hood
> > but in there no chroot
> BeOS is not a Unix. It's somewhat POSIX compatible/compliant but that 
> does in no way mean it's a Unix.
> BeOS also effectively runs everything as "root", ie full permissions 
> to
> the (one) user, so implementing a chroot() call, although possible, 
> would be pretty much useless.

You got that wrong - "chroot" is not about changing the root user, but 
the root directory.
In BeOS, its equivalent would be something like change_boot_directory() 
(which, of course, doesn't exist).
A call like this could be used to directly switch to a freshly 
installed BeOS, without the need to reboot after the installation. It's 
definitely not useless - it would be a nice and subtle addition, and 
something I intend to do some day.
You install the OS in less than 10 minutes and can use it right away, 
even without having to reboot. That's something that would give you the 
right BeOS philosophy from the start :))

Bye,
   Axel.