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Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty
On May 6 14:14, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On May 5 18:41, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> >> I would make / permanent; i.e. unchangeable by the user. Any mounts in
> >> /etc/fstab to / are just discarded. For MSYS the root / is always the
> >> parent directory of the directory containing the dll and the directory
> >> containing the dll is always /bin.
> >
> > Hmm, that's an idea. We never fixed root before but there is a certain
> > dumbness to the idea to change / (and /usr/bin) away from the place
> > where the Cygwin DLL resides.
> >
> > I'd rather like to hear other opinions before doing that, though.
>
> Just one question: how will this interact with chroot()?
This only happens when started the first time. At the time the home dir
is evaluated a potential chroot is not set up. So it won't be any
different than without chroot.
Corinna
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