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    >You need to be root to do mknod. You need to do mknod to create /dev/zero.
    >You need /dev/zero to get anywhere near the normal behaviour of the system.
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    Sure, but we're not necessarily looking for a system that behaves
    normally in all aspects. The example given was that of a paranoid
    network server that does all its initialisation in a normal environment,
    and then does a chroot to its data directory. Or alternatively, forks
    after accepting a connection, and the child does a chroot. No need to be
    able to exec other programs, etc. Such a daemon is certainly possible,
    as I've written one myself. But it had to be started by root, rather
    than by a normal user.

    I'm not claiming that the user chroot patch is necessarily useful enough
    to be included in the standard kernel - merely that it does have some
    real-world uses.

    Paul


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