[Toybox] Toybox in Devuan / Debian. Was: [PATCH] losetup: fix the race.

[David Seikel]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 08:10:12 -0500 Rob Landley said :
> On 8/7/19 10:59 AM, enh wrote:
> > and if the next stage in your personal "surely this can't be true?"
> > journey is the same as mine, the answer i got from our init
> > maintainer for the "why?" is that the kernel doesn't want to have
> > an opinion on permissions etc. (they pointed out that Android's
> > setup actually reduces the size of the window compared to the
> > desktop.)  
> 
> I remember the lwn.net argument, but I thought they _did_ merge
> default permissions in? (I remember the argument but not the
> resolution...)
> 
> Looks like permissions went in: https://lwn.net/Articles/353849/
> 
> Ah, I see what happened to ownership:
> 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/546464/
> 
> It was submitted to the kernel by a bad messenger:
> 
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/05/torvalds_sievers_dust_up/
> 
> (Who of course went on to become one of the core devs of systemd.
> Which is why I'm using devuan.)

Now that you mention it Devuan has a busybox package, via Debian, but
no toybox package.  If we want to do something about that the question
becomes - do we push it into Debian, or push it into Devuan?  I might
be able to help with the later.

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