Re: git-daemon --inetd

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Later exchanges between you and HPA appeared to me that we would
> need a chroot environment which has "enough stuff" and that this
> patch may not help him very much.  Am I mistaken?
> 

Well, building a chroot environment which supports execing is a bit of a 
pain, but it's fully doable.  mount --bind especially makes that quite 
feasible.  It's just more work.

> I think resolving user and group to numeric before you do
> chroot() might make the setting up of chrooted environment a
> little simpler; no need for supporting getpwnam and getgrnam
> there.  On the other hand it may not matter -- you can always
> give numeric uid/gid to begin with.

Yes, resolve the username first.

	-hpa