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SubjectRe: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ?


On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:

> It's thing like ftpd which expect that environment is there. Or similar
> program to execure cgi script in sandbox. And without devfs, procfs and
> ipcfs it's DOABLE: you can put all needed libraries as hardlinks
> there. Without // trick (or rather /../ trick -- looks much saner to me)
> it's doable as well. WITHOUT changes for each and every program when new
> netfs or whjatever is implemented.

Oh, _please_! Before dropping root, but after geting a private namespace
and doing chroot():
while read i; do mount $i; done </etc/fstab.virtual

> Namespaces ARE great. It's just orthogonal issue :-( The whole idea behind
> superoot is to remove need to add ANYTHING to programs with chroot when
> there are new wonderfull filesystem like procfs, devfs or ipcfs is
> created.

See above.


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