Re: Chroot bug

[David Newall]

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> chroot does not allow you to walk out if you're in.

You're mistaken.  Or more properly, further use of chroot lets you walk 
out.  This really has been said before, and before, and before.

   chroot("subtree");   // enter chroot
   chdir("/");    // now at subtree
   chroot("/tmp");   // now outside of chroot


BSD redefined chroot so that the working directory is set to the new 
root on subsequent uses of chroot; that's how they solved the bug.
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