On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
chroot was discussed last year, but somewhat discarded as overkill compared to trace mode and flexible logging... I updated the chroot scripts from OpenDarwin to install Tiger instead, but there never was a "minimum footprint" decided so it installed most of it - or about 4 GB in total. (this was when installed from the Mac OS X + Xcode Tools installation packages, before any pruning)
As Paul and I discussed a number of times, "trace mode" could indeed effectively simulate a chroot by confining all reads/stats to a specific namespace (which, presumably, would be defined by a "target" configuration file somewhere) and redirecting all open-for-write requests to a scratch location, possibly with copy-on-write semantics if that becomes necessary. Sounds like an excellent GSOC project. ;-)
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