On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:05:07 +0930 David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote: > >> Marek's loading dynamic libraries, it seems clear that the prime > >> purpose of chroot is to aid security. Being able to cd your way > >> out is handy > > > > Does it - I can't find any evidence for that. > > It seems self-evident to me. What do you think is it prime purpose? > > the prime purpose is that you can have different sets of userspace libs for testing or parallel deployment (for example this is used in many distribution build systems) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
