[BusyBox] Crazy idea for chroot

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri Jul 21, 2000 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> What do you this about this patch:
> 
> ===================
> --- chroot.c	Sun Jul 16 21:18:38 2000
> +++ chroot.c	Fri Jul 21 10:04:45 2000
> @@ -47,10 +47,15 @@
>  		prog = *argv;
>  		execvp(*argv, argv);
>  	} else {
> +#ifndef BB_SH
>  		prog = getenv("SHELL");
>  		if (!prog)
>  			prog = "/bin/sh";
>  		execlp(prog, prog, NULL);
> +#else
> +		shell_main(argc, argv);
> +		exit (0);
> +#endif
>  	}
>  	fatalError("cannot execute %s: %s\n", prog, strerror(errno));
>  
> ===================
> 
> It means that if both chroot and sh are enabled in busybox and you don't
> specify the shell, the internal shell is used. You can still specify
> /bin/sh if you want.
> 
> The most funny thing is that you can chroot to an empty directory and have
> all the embedded commands available!
> 
> Ok to apply?

Hmm.  Thats prety cool.  Do it. :-)

 -Erik

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