On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 04:17:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be broken so that > > you can trivially break out of a chroot via: > > What drugs are you on? > > Your example is moronic, and against all _documented_ uses of chroot. ... and even fixing that example (chroot *can* be escaped, if you can call chroot(2) - mkdir /foo, chdir /, chroot /foo, chroot .. and you are out) the whole thing is idiocy - chroot() is not and has never been root-proof and anybody expecting it to be has failed to read any number of FAQs out there. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
