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 handyDoes it - I can't find any evidence for that.
It seems self-evident to me. What do you think is it prime purpose?
A root user can get out of a chroot a million different ways
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