Re: Chroot bug

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:05:07 +0930
David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> 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)
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