Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Glitch in sys_chroot() | From | (Aaron M. Ucko) | Date | 14 Nov 1996 19:32:01 -0500 |
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Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@origin-at.co.uk> writes:
> This was commented on in some security lists, but it never seems > to have made it into the kernel as of 2.0.25.
That's because the bug is in chroot(8), not chroot(2). chroot(2) is supposed to change only the root directory; Linux's behavior is correct.
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