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Re: Package requiring a customised version of libc6



On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:23:39PM +0100, David Given wrote:
> (Incidentally, the more I look at fakechroot the more I'm coming to believe
> that it's no use for anything whatsoever. The security aspects of it are...
> erm... nil; it's trivial for the client app to break out of its jail. Is this
> a potential problem?)

No, because it's not meant to provide security, just like fakeroot isn't
meant to provide real root privs.

- Matt



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