[systemd-devel] Compiling in a sandbox

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 08.07.10 23:51, Ozan Çağlayan (ozan at pardus.org.tr) wrote:

> None, as it seems that we did not hit that bug. Look I admit that
> doing things on behalf of the root user is bad, is evil, is not
> recommended. But okay it is under my responsibility, isn't it? (BTW
> that bug wouldn't cause me harm as we're using a sandbox.)

Just out of curiosity, what kind of "sandbox" is this? I mean, it
appears a bit strange to me to do sandboxing by running things as
root. Is that a simple chroot? 

> All I want to know is that is it really something impossible to fix or
> is Lennart not prefering to care of this because the outcome will only
> affect people building systemd as root?

Well, I am not the only one who can write code. A patch is often a very
convincing argument if the upstream folks don't fulfill your wishes
right-away...

Lennart

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