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From: Christos Zoulas (christos_at_zoulas.com)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 12:40:45 CST

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    In article <20030117041646.BB66C7B4Dberkshire.research.att.com>,
    Steven M. Bellovin <smbresearch.att.com> wrote:
    >In message <20030117041148.85E45Aproven.weird.com>, "Greg A. Woods" writes:
    >>[ On Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 16:08:57 (-0500), Steve Bellovin wrote: ]
    >>> Subject: extending chroot()
    >>>
    >>> Comments? (I wish that socket() went through the file system, so that
    >>> I could restrict network access that way, too.)
    >>
    >>Isn't this where someone's supposed to pipe up and say "If you wanted
    >>Plan 9 then you know where to find it!" :-)
    >>

    There is nothing wrong with the `everything is a file' approach, and over
    the years many commercial and non commercial unixes have been gradually
    doing that.

    christos