On 10/16/2014 12:02 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
I don't have a strong preference either but would be (60:40) the other way. In my mind they comes under the "it's better to ask forgiveness than permission" idea. I.E. it's better to invoke lower layer logic where possible, rather than adding higher level logic. Given it's more risky to avoid the chroot() I'd be inclined to wait until there were complaints about the inconsistent behavior rather than the other way around.
Another possibility would be to suppress issuing an error diagnostic for a chroot() failure when DIR is "/" ... Have a nice day, Berny
