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Re: [PATCH] fexecve



On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:34:29 +0000
David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:14:18PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > 
> > Frankly, I still don't see the point why something would want to
> > use it.
> 
> How about running a staticly linked executable inside a chroot without
> needed the executable itself to do the chroot.

What does this gain over passing a filename around? (NB. I'm not
claiming that's an entirely safe model either, but it's already
possible).


Julian

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