bug#18062: [PATCH] chroot: always change to / if not changing credentials

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 07/31/2014 11:56 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 07/31/2014 08:19 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > Well, I took the way to add an internal "---skip-chdir" option,
> > but we can turn it into a publicly-visible "--skip-chdir" easily
> > if desired
>
> I'm leaning towards that.

Okay, I'll make it a regular option then ...

> > - although I don't see how such a probably-shoot-yourself-
> > in-the-foot option would help in real-world scripts. I think it'd
> > be clearer in such scripts to explicitly "cd" into the previous
> > directory.
>
> It might not always be run from a script,
> and so would be awkward to go back to the current dir.
> --skip-chdir is explicit so I don't really see the danger.
> We could restrict the --skip-chdir functionality to when the
> specified root dir = current root dir.

... with this restriction.
Getting back to you with the new patch soon (hopefully this night).

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny