Re: svn commit: r228843 - head/contrib/telnet/libtelnet

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On 12/29/11 06:39, John Baldwin wrote:
> Can you give some more details on why ftpd is triggering a dlopen
> inside of the chroot?  It would appear that that is unrelated to
> helper programs (since setting a flag in libc in ftpd can't
> possibly affect helper programs ability to use dlopen() from within
> libc).

Sure.  That's because nsdispatch(3) would reload /etc/nsswitch.conf if
it notices a change.  After chroot() the file is considered as
"chang"ed and thus it reloads the file as well as designated shared
libraries.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	https://www.delphij.net/
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