linux-kernel - Re: sys_chroot+sys

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:24:19 +0930
From:	David Newall <david@...idnewall.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix

Alan,

Alan Cox wrote:
>> therefore it must be right.  You present no reasoning to explain why the 
>> behavior is correct; instead you use insults.  I've exhausted my 
>> tolerance for rudeness.
>>     
>
> Well if citing standards documents at people is rudeness so be it.

Did you just tell a porky?  Did you just (again) say something 
calculated to give a false belief?  I think so.

This is not a citation:
> It does change the root, it just doesn't guarantee you can't change it
> back - which is correct POSIX, Unix, SuS behaviour. So either everyone
> else is wrong or you are.. I know who I am betting on
>   

That was you implying that standard documents say things that they 
don't.  But yes, that was the first time.

Care to let it drop?

David
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