Re: [uml-devel] Bug report

[David C. <da...@da...>]

Steve Schnepp wrote:
> Maybe the hostfs switch doesn't work either, but actually i don't think
> rootfs would work. [ Well... I didn't try actually ]

rootfs sets the UML's root filesystem - It has nothing to do with 
hostfs. hostfs= sets the toplevel directory for mounting hostfs.

> You have to be root to use chroot since I don't know any other way. It
> could be a good reason for some.

Start as root
chroot()
setgid
setuid
run UML

David

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