X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:45:10 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin acts weird to / in a chroot Message-ID: <20090323204510.GA9322@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/