On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:21:49AM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:12:30 -0500 > Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at Sun.COM> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 04:53:48PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > > I don't understand the point of this. Why is this kind of emulation > > > helpful? Is this just to create honeypot? Or am I missing something. > > > > No. Remember when ON had to be built as UID 0? It's for that sort of > > purpose. > > ... something that I'm working hard to fully remove. Requiring a > build as uid 0 has long since past its use-by date.
ON is not the only thing of its kind in the world. fakeroot, and a number of similar LD_PRELOAD-based tools are useful. Since all they do is LD_PRELOAD an object (or pair of them, 32- and 64-bit), there's nothing really very controversial about them as a group. Nico --
