Re: [PATCH] revert- sys_setaltroot

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 13:35 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 03:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > There were security problems and suggestions that a namespace-based
> > approach would be better.   umm, have a random sprinkle of emails:
> 
> The security problems have been addressed, and the namespace-based
> approach was never coherently explained. I can't see how such would
> work.

see viro's recent proposal for bindmounts and the like.


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