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Old 9th June 2017
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The thing with chroot-ing it to /var/tmp/ (or /tmp/) is that you don't know which files may be there, and that the chrooting program may accidentally expose information present in those directories, or even worse allow modification of those files!

With /var/empty/, I don't need to worry about any of that.

At any rate, my eventual solution was to create an empty /var/program_name/ directory. I later added some support for file caching, so I had to do that in the long run anyway :-)
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