Re: [uml-devel] Bug report

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

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> It might be nice if UML could do the chroot/setuid itself if started as
> root, after opening its files.  This way, ubd devices and such could be kept
> outside the chroot.

But then the UML would have to be executed initially as root, plus it 
would have to open all the files as root if it was to do so prior to 
chrooting itself.

The filemap patch makes more sense, since you can feed it file 
descriptors, rather than actual files.

David

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