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Re: /dev/clockctl, O_CLOEXEC and forking

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Subject: Re: /dev/clockctl, O_CLOEXEC and forking
From: christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 00:44:34 +0000 (UTC)

In article <20180429192706.GA25516@neva>,
Alexander Nasonov  <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost> wrote:

>I don't think adjtime will work because ntpd still runs as root and
>it can't drop to an unprivileged user before it calls chroot(2).

Right it is the chicken and the egg problem. Your case of running it in
a non-dev chroot is special :-)

christos

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