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From: Steven M. Bellovin (smbresearch.att.com)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 13:43:30 CDT

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    In message <Pine.WNT.4.33.0107132340300.912-100000todd>, Todd Vierling writes:
    >On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:
    >
    >: so why not say "chroot environment" as opposed to "jail environment"
    >: or "chroot jail" (which can easily be confused with chroot/jail)?
    >
    >"chroot jail" has been a commonplace term for the chrooted environment since
    >long before jail(2) existed. It's a difficult habit to break. 8-)

    Yup -- the phrase was used in Cheswick's "Berferd" paper, in January 1992.

                    --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb