Re: access to proc filesystem from chrooted process

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Fri, 21 May 1999 00:40:54 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Peri.

> There is a suggestion in the kernel sources that a chrooted
> process should only be able to see processes that have the same
> root or that have a more restricted root.

Unless I'm misunderstanding this, it appears to be pointless since
only processes chroot'd to / or /proc could see the entries in the
proc file system anyway, as if they're chroot'd anywhere else, they
can't even access /proc ???

Best wishes from Riley.

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