From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-daemon --inetd
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:54:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <432AF8A8.6070807@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbr2tqwl0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-15 6:04 git-daemon --inetd H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 18:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 19:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 21:44 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-10-22 13:45 ` Jon Seymour
2005-10-22 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16 6:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16 7:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16 16:54 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-09-16 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-16 18:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
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