Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757299AbXITQHG (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:07:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756317AbXITQG4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:06:56 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:34062 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755740AbXITQG4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:06:56 -0400 Message-ID: <46F29A9A.4070806@davidnewall.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:36:50 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philipp Marek CC: 7eggert@gmx.de, Alan Cox , Bill Davidsen , majkls , bunk@fs.tum.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix References: <952DN-83o-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <954cl-29C-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <95ctn-74b-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <95cMH-7um-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <95gdA-4OZ-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <56705.193.171.152.61.1190289559.squirrel@webmail.marek.priv.at> In-Reply-To: <56705.193.171.152.61.1190289559.squirrel@webmail.marek.priv.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 491 Lines: 13 Philipp Marek wrote: > - User starts a small wrapper, > - that opens "/", > - chroot()s into a directory and starts fsvs. > - fsvs gets its libraries loaded > - and chroot()s back to the original system. Isn't that what pivot_root was meant for? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/