Chroot Jail Not Secure for Sandboxing Python?

[gregpinero at gmail.com]

On Jun 25, 4:12 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-
mail-0306.20.chr0n... at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> gregpin... at gmail.com wrote:
> > I followed up with my ISP.  Here's the answer I got:
>
> > The os.exec call prepends the chroot directory to the absolute
> > path, but does NOT provide chroot for the child process.
>
> That sounds like rubbish to me. If it worked like that, chrooting
> servers would be virtually useless.

You're right.  It turns out he was referring to fakechroot.  Chroot
shouldn't have this problem.

-Greg