On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:48 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:21:24PM -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > > Umm, guys? Chroot() was a late bolt-on to UNIX that attempted to provide > > a best-effort approximation to confinement in a system where it was way > > too late to do the real thing. > > > > There may be a good reason to copy a known bad quick patch when we now > > have a better solution, but could somebody explain it to me? > > Because we want POSIX, of course. However, in this case I would suggest a > different solution: Provide chroot, but let it fail unless an environment > variable or something is set...
Please let us know what you think of the Korn/Gansner approach as an alternative. I think it's cleaner. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
