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Re: Relax the prohibition of usage fchdir(2) to quit a chroot



On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 04:28:37AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> IMHO, we should not implement this "feature".  We should not introduce ways
> to avoid deliberate, well-thought-out security mechanisms.
> 
> The use-case itself is broken, in my opinion.

Strongly seconded.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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