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Re: Hurdish applications for persistence
From: |
Jonathan S. Shapiro |
Subject: |
Re: Hurdish applications for persistence |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:49:49 -0400 |
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
- Re: Chroot and "..", (continued)
- Re: Chroot and "..", Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/10/13
- Re: Chroot and "..", Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/13
- Re: Chroot and "..", Espen Skoglund, 2005/10/13
- Re: Chroot and "..", Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/13
- Re: Chroot and "..", Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/10/13
- Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, Bas Wijnen, 2005/10/13
- Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/10/13
- Re: Hurdish applications for persistence,
Jonathan S. Shapiro <=
- Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, Bas Wijnen, 2005/10/14
- Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/10/14
- Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/14
- Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/10/13
- Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/12
- Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/10/13
Re: Hurdish applications for persistence, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/10/12