Re: [PMH] Re: [Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

[Ian McKellar]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:54:47PM -0400, Ian Peters wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:28:26PM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Eric Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > > However, you could rig up an LD_PRELOAD shared library to handle
> > > some useful system calls (open, unlink, etc.)
> > 
> > Nope. LD_PRELOAD intercepts library calls, but that doesn't prevent people
> > from calling system calls directly...
> 
> Odd.
> 
> Have you used fakeroot before?  That's exactly what it does, and it
> seems to work fine.

It works great for things like building packages but I really wouldn't use
it for security.

Ian

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