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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Subject: Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:45:18 -0700
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On 04/01/2010 01:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/01/2010 02:19 PM, d.sastre.medina@gmail.com wrote:
>    
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to build a chrooted env in a windows 7 box:
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 win7 1.7.2(0.225/5/3) 2010-03-24 21:12 i686 Cygw
>>      
> What do you hope to accomplish with this?  You are NOT adding any
> security to your system by using a cygwin chroot, because you do not
> have operating system support (that is, an application can escape the
> jail by using native Windows commands).  chroot exists to ease porting
> some programs (such as coreutils), but is NOT a solution for security
> that you seem to think it is.
I'd like to use it to set up the environment for Rational Clearcase's 
concept of setting a view. It uses a chrooted environment of sorts. Of 
course lacking OS support it probably wouldn't be 100% but it might 
smooth the rough edges.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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