hurd/settrans/discussion: settrans --chroot.

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     <antrik> braunr: well, the fact that a translator is unset by setting it to
       nothing is unclear in general, not only for passive translator. I agree
       that pointing this out should make things much more clear in general...
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+<a name="chroot">
+# `--chroot`
+</a>
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+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-08-29
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+    <teythoon> btw, I somehow feel settrans is being abused for chroot and
+      friends, there is no translator setting involved
+    <youpi> chroot, the command? or the settrans option?
+    <youpi> I don't understand what you are pointing at
+    <teythoon> the settrans option being used by fakeroot, remap and (most
+      likely) our chroot
+    <youpi> our chroot is just a file_reparent call
+    <youpi> fakeroot and remap do start a translator
+
+[[virtualization/remap_root_translator]], [[virtualization/fakeroot]].
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+    <teythoon> yes, but it is not being bound to a node, which is (how I
+      understand it) what settrans does
+    <teythoon> the point being that if settrans is being invoked with --chroot,
+      it does something completely different (see the big if (chroot) {...}
+      blocks)
+    <teythoon> to a point that it might be better of in a separate command
+    <youpi> Mmm, indeed, a lot of the options don't make sense for chroot