Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:33:20 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Chroot bug |
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:05:07 +0930 David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote: > >> Marek's loading dynamic libraries, it seems clear that the prime > >> purpose of chroot is to aid security. Being able to cd your way > >> out is handy > > > > Does it - I can't find any evidence for that. > > It seems self-evident to me. What do you think is it prime purpose? > >
the prime purpose is that you can have different sets of userspace libs for testing or parallel deployment (for example this is used in many distribution build systems) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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