whistlez...@riseup.net wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:35:17AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > Kevin Chadwick <m8il1i...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I am considering replacing all chroot use with unveil in my processes 
> > > even where
> > > no filesystem access is required.
> > 
> > I am discouraging this.
> > 
> > unveil is a complicated mechanism, and we may still discover a bug in
> > it.
> > 
> > Almost all the chroot in the tree are to empty unwriteable directories,
> > in which case chroot is very secure and a very simple mechanism.
> > 
> 
> you'd suggest the same for the browsers ?

they don't use chroot, and they cannot.

chroot is *only* available to root.

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