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Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.
Homedir? I thought that was the other thread! No, I meant 'if we "make /
permanent; i.e. unchangeable by the user", will chroot still work?', or to put
it another way, I'm asking "are you proposing to remove the functionality that
allows reassigning "/" or just ignore it in the code that parses fstab, or
block it at the level of the mount() system call?"
cheers,
DaveK