> The os.exec call prepends the chroot directory to the absolute path, > but does NOT provide chroot for the child process. However, as long > as the environment is maintained, which contains an LD_PRELOAD, the > "chroot" will also be maintained. If LD_PRELOAD is removed or > ignored, then the chroot is ineffective.
As others have mentioned (which I just repeat for additional support): Your ISP is probably thinking of fakeroot, which is entirely unlike chroot(2), with the latter being a proper kernel mechanism, not dynamic library trickery (which would indeed be easy to break out of). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
