Re: Glitch in sys_chroot()

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:52:26 +0000 (GMT)


> As for the security aspects, making chroot() do a chdir() will only serve
> to create programmers that think that chroot() will do a chdir() on all
> machines. This doesn't close security holes, it *opens* them.

Point taken.

Alan