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Re: chroot("/") can't work.
>>> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 05:17:43 -0800 (PST)
>>> Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> said:
> Is this patch so that you can do `chroot /'? Why would you want to do that?
> Cheers,
The current implementation of chroot sets '/' as the root dir
against chroot("/"). It causes `//usr' by `/usr'. It must set an
empty string as the root dir in the same way as the previous
implementation.
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| AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
| HOKURIKU School of Information Science
o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology