Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/10/06/10:11:17
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct =C2=A05 20:18, Julio Costa wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 19:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > Why don't you just put cygwin1.dll into $CHROOT-DIR/bin?
>> >
>>
>> I did. It obviously works. But I see this more as the workaround, not
>> the solution.
>>
>> I'm trying to go from the workaround to the general solution.
>
> I think putting the DLL into /bin is the general solution.
Ok. Solution 3). That closes this thread.
Let's move on, then.
> I wrote this on this list a couple of times and I'm writing this again, a=
s long as
> anybody wants to read it: =C2=A0Chroot is a bad hack, bad fake on Cygwin =
and
> I curse the day I added this to Cygwin. =C2=A0Don't use chroot and think
> you're safe. =C2=A0You're not. =C2=A0It's just a joke of a jail. =C2=A0Do=
n't put too
> much work into it. =C2=A0I, certainly, won't.
>
I'll open a new thread about these Chroot recurring misleads.
It deserves a thread of it's own.
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Julio Costa
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