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Using a unionfs-fuse mounted filesystem as / works very well without root privileges, as long as user namespaces are supported by the kernel - see https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/406 for details. You can...

In case you want to try the use-case I described: Find my "makeaoi" software here: https://github.com/lvml/makeaoi

On 07/13/2017 08:17 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I have my doubts about that makeaoi idea. It actually does work pretty well already - I really enjoyed using an up-to-date...

Good news: I was able to implement exemplary ioctl() support (starting with TCGETS and TCSETS, as those are used by bash and may other programs indirectly). See https://github.com/lvml/unionfs-fuse/tree/fake_dev for a...

On 07/17/2017 02:58 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > In that case you're much better off bind-mounting those directories into > your chroot. `mount --bind` is not allowed to non-root users,...

On 07/18/2017 02:02 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > `mount --bind` is not allowed to non-root users, > > That's right. The same holds for mounting of fuse filesystems. While...

On 07/18/2017 04:16 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Well, you just gave the answer: provide a setuid mount helper for bind > mounts, just like libfuse provides one for fuse...

On 07/18/2017 03:34 PM, Radek Podgorny wrote: > nikolaus, what would be needed to implement proper special device > handling in fuse (so it could be implemented without the "as...

BTW: I succeded to package "subsurface" using "makeaoi" such that subsurface can communicate with dive computers attached to serial ports - Proof of Concept example: https://transfer.sh/2tLny/subsurface-4.6.4-2-x86_64.AppImage In addition to some...

I would like to understand why you want the script to prefer higher refresh rates in general. As long as two refresh rates are both even multipliers of the video...