Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:28:12 -0700 | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Subject | Re: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist |
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On 10/21/2014 01:49 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hey, > > GNOME has had discussions with kernel developers in the past, and, > fortunately, in some cases we were able to make headway. > > There are however a number of items that we still don't have solutions > for, items that kernel developers might not realise we'd like to rely > on, or don't know that we'd make use of if merged. > > I've posted this list at: > https://wiki.gnome.org/BastienNocera/KernelWishlist > > Let me know on-list or off-list if you have any comments about those, so > I can update the list.
I don't know much about desktop environment infrastructure, but I think the kernel probably already has a lot of what's needed for LinuxApps.
Tools like Sandstorm [1] (shameless plug, but it's a good example here) can already sandbox normal-ish programs, and those sandboxes can be launched without privilege [2].
Why is kdbus needed? Why are overlays better than, say, btrfs lightweight copies here? Also, overlayfs might actually make it for 3.19.
[1] sandstorm.io [2] https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/master/src/sandstorm/supervisor-main.c%2B%2B
As for childfs, I implemented procfs polling a couple years ago, but it never went anywhere:
http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1840e47fc4113af16989a4250d98bed62a9bce53.1354559528.git.luto@amacapital.net
If that would help, I can try to dust it off and get it in to the kernel.
--Andy
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