F11 bind-chroot - a question?

[Tim]

Tim:
>> without the symlinks, you need two tools:  One for the chrooted, or
>> another for the non-chrooted files.  Or one that magically works on
>> the right file.


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>   That is just bad app design - the app needs to learn about which
> root to use for the config files - should be settable.

And what's that going to do when a user who has a chrooted system, but
doesn't understand this, creates their own /etc/named.conf file?  (A
common enough occurrence.)

>    No app should rely on some non-standard links just coz its the easy
> way. Its not a lot of work to fix this correctly.

There's nothing non-standard about symlinks.  It's a very standard way
with dealing with this issue.

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