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Re: Cygwin acts weird to / in a chroot
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:45:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cygwin acts weird to / in a chroot
- References: <loom.20090323T202144-751@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 23 20:34, Dick wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have some trouble running chrooted shell scripts:
>
> - First I've copied c:\cygwin to c:\cygwin\chroot\a
> - I've created a shell script test.sh:
> cat > /chroot/a/test.sh << @EOF
> #!/bin/bash
> echo hello
> @EOF
> - Then I try to run the shell chrooted, this works
> chroot /chroot/a /bin/bash
> - In the chroot I run the shell script, which echoes hello:
> bash test.sh
> - Then I leave the chroot (ctrl-d) and start the shell script from chroot:
> chroot /chroot/a /bin/bash /test.sh
>
> This returns: bash: *: No such file or directory (where * is a white smiley)
>
> - The strange thing is that:
> chroot /chroot/a /bin/bash test.sh
>
> Just works, what is wrong? Cygwin seems to act very weird to / in a chroot.
Don't use chroot on Cygwin. It was never more than a hack and it adds
no security at all, given that the concept isn't supported by the OS.
Corinna
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