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     <youpi> ok
     <youpi> but that indeed means writeback of ext2fs works, which is a good
       sign :)
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+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-04
+
+    <teythoon> btw, I noticed that fifos do not work on tmpfs
+    <braunr> teythoon: tmpfs seems limited, yes
+    <teythoon> that's annoying b/c /run is a tmpfs on Debian and sysvinit
+      creates a crontrol fifo there
+    <teythoon> I wonder why I didn't notice that before
+    <braunr> also, fifos, like symlinks, can be shortcircuited in libdiskfs
+    <braunr> i wonder if that has anything to do with the problem at hand
+
+[[mtab/discussion]], *Multiple mtab Translators Spawned*.
+
+    <teythoon> b/c this breaks reboot & friends
+    <teythoon> I do too
+    <teythoon> b/c I cannot find any shortcut related code in tmpfs
+    <braunr> well, it's optional normally
+    <braunr> so that's ok
+    <braunr> but has it really been tested when the option wasn't there ? :)
+    <teythoon> yes, but the tmpfs requests this by setting diskfs_shortcut_fifo
+      = 1;
+    <pinotree> hm i remember tmpfs was said to be working with
+      sockets/fifos/etc, back then when it was fixed
+    <braunr> teythoon: oh
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-11
+
+    <teythoon> this will have to wait for the next hurd pkg unfortunately, b/c
+      I broke tmpfs by accident :-/
+    <pinotree> how so?
+    <teythoon> the dropping of privileges broke passive translators and mkfifo
+    <braunr> there actually is a reason why those are run as root or with the
+      privilege of their owner
+    <braunr> privileges should be decoupled from identity
+    <teythoon> yes