[tor-relays] serious gap in 'chroot' documentation

krishna e bera keb at cyblings.on.ca
Fri Oct 18 12:29:20 UTC 2013


On 13-10-18 03:34 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
> I think that Tor should implement natively support for self-chrooting
> and that those kind of approach are dirty, unmaintainable, hacks.
> 
> Most security software does support chrooting natively, simply by
> opening the relevant filesystem filedescriptor before chrooting, and
> then operating over it from inside the chroot.

Have you reviewed the patch attached to:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3794
The above may not be about "native" chroot, but this looks like it is at
least partly:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7005
Perhaps open another enhancement ticket to tie it all together.

Problem: does "chroot" mean anything in a Windows environment?



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