Re: [dev] more on sbase

I for one would be very happy about an alternative chroot
implementation, since that is missing in my base2plan9 and
base2heirloom AUR experiments (right now patching up with Busybox).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Base2heirloom
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Base2plan9

2011/6/20 pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com>:
> I missed chroot(1) .. but after looking at the manpage I noticed that:
>
> * all flags are long (which looks like there's no standard for those
> options)
> * Which flags should we handle (-u user -g group ?)
> * We should chdir(path); chroot("."); instead of calling chroot(path);
>  - this is because the linux implementation is vulnerable.. this is not
> happening in BSD.
>
> writing this chroot command is trivial.. but i just want to know about this.
> feel free to submit the chroot.c
>
> To create an archive library you need to run ranlib, AR is not enought...
> well it's enought on linux and some BSDs.. but it's definitively not enought
> for Solaris and OSX. Can you please push a fix for this? (just call "ranlib
> libutil.a" after ar -r -c...)
>
> thanks
>
>
Received on Mon Jun 20 2011 - 15:15:30 CEST