[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#476332: Acknowledgement (schroot: Fails mysteriously when /etc/schroot/schroot.conf is a symlink)

[Timothy G Abbott]

This seems to be caused by opening the configuration files with O_NOFOLLOW:

~/schroot-1.1.6$ grep -Rn O_NOFOLLOW .
./sbuild/sbuild-chroot-config.cc:441:  int fd = open(file.c_str(), O_RDONLY|O_NOFOLLOW);

I don't see a reason why opening the configuration file with O_NOFOLLOW 
improves the security of schroot, since the configuration comes from /etc 
anyway.

 	-Tim Abbott