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Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty


On May  6 15:14, Dave Korn wrote:
> 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!

Oops :}

>     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?"

I'm not proposing it, Earnie is ;)  From my POV, it might be a viable
option.  If we would do it, it wouldn't affect chroot because the code
is only run once at the start of the first Cygwin process in a user
session.  A call to chroot would work as usual.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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