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Message-Id: <199902231506.PAA16840@out1.ibm.net>
From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:06:55 -0500
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Subject: Re: patches for chroot
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> I think _fixpath should do that as well, to prevent confusion, and also to

Right.

> be compatible with Unix description that every call to chroot interprets
> its argument *relative to the previous root*.

This is mentioned in the descriptions I found for the chroot command, 
but not in the descriptions (for HPUX & Minux) for the chroot function.

Mark

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Mark Elbrecht
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