From: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Cygwin |chroot()| "bad" - but what should replace it ? / was: Re: process substitution to create a virtual file doesn't work in chroot environment
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:41:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKAoaQk-9y9hc7+KK2L+xpRHZdq7+4dw3pW0X+Xj7j9LFmA7xA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZOxf6QOIRAciCVE6@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 10:50 AM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Aug 27 18:13, Cary Lewis via Cygwin wrote:
[snip
> The chroot implementation is old, bad, and deprecated. I was going
> to rip it out entirely for I don't know how often already, but there
> was always somebody asking to keep it. Given that it never did what
> chroot is intended, don't use it.
What should replace it if you rip it out ? And why is the implemenation "bad" ?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-21 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-27 22:13 Cary Lewis
2023-08-28 5:13 ` Cedric Blancher
2023-08-28 8:50 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-10-21 22:41 ` Roland Mainz [this message]
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