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authorRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2015-05-31 05:11:28 -0500
committerRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2015-05-31 12:12:35 -0500
commitf033f8607f156464747abe57487c1f6226f94001 (patch)
treea6df1d5b20e886662c29dd422fcef344f12955d5 /toys/other/chroot.c
parent42cc29c7883c852462c6c740c72eff06bca8accc (diff)
downloadtoybox-f033f8607f156464747abe57487c1f6226f94001.tar.gz
Move the magic list of commands needing cleanup from toys/pending/README
to greppable TODO annotations in the individual files. (grep -riw TODO)
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diff --git a/toys/other/chroot.c b/toys/other/chroot.c
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/* chroot.c - Run command in new root directory.
*
* Copyright 2007 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
+ *
+ * TODO: The test for root is "==" so root can trivially escape a chroot by
+ * moving it below cwd, ala mkdir("sub"); chroot("sub"); chdir("../../../..")
+ * The container guys use pivot_root() to deal with this, which does actually
+ * edit mount tree. (New option? Kernel patch?)
USE_CHROOT(NEWTOY(chroot, "^<1", TOYFLAG_USR|TOYFLAG_SBIN))