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 <panc...@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 > >
