Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756846AbXIZKe1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:34:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754950AbXIZKeU (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:34:20 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:34342 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754467AbXIZKeT (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:34:19 -0400 Message-ID: <46FA35A6.1070400@davidnewall.com> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:04:14 +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: Al Viro CC: Phillip Susi , Alan Cox , Bill Davidsen , majkls , bunk@fs.tum.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix References: <46F0CD96.9030807@prepere.com> <20070919104018.3a6bcfb1@the-village.bc.nu> <46F16A0A.3070402@tmr.com> <20070919194559.36015307@the-village.bc.nu> <46F1A196.8060108@davidnewall.com> <46F401D6.6060609@cfl.rr.com> <20070921191012.15a0b51b@the-village.bc.nu> <46F9752C.5080807@cfl.rr.com> <20070926002340.GL8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070926002340.GL8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 598 Lines: 13 Al Viro wrote: > Oh, for fsck sake... Folks, it's standard-required behaviour. Ability > to chroot() implies the ability to break out of it. Could we please > add that (along with reference to SuS) to l-k FAQ and be done with that > nonsense? I'm pretty confident that it's only standard behavior for Linux. Every other unix says it's not allowed. - 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/