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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:56:34 -0400
To: "Noel L Yap" <yap_noel AT jpmorgan DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: chroot and mount question
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At 11:32 AM 7/30/2001, Noel L Yap wrote:
>If I have the following mount structure:
>d:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
>v: on /view type user (binmode)
>d:\cygwin on /view/nyap-tig-du type user (binmode)
>v:\nyap-tig-du on /view/nyap-tig-du/vobs type user (binmode)
>
>and the following directory structure:
>/
>/cygwin
>/cygwin/bin
>/view
>/view/view0
>/view/view0/vobs
>/view/view0/vobs/vob0
>/vobs
>/vobs/vob1
>
>what should the behaviour of:
>      chroot /view/view0
>      ls /vobs
>
>be?
>
>I'm hoping the answer would be:
>      vob0
>
>but what I'm getting is:
>      vob1
>
>Is this correct behaviour (I haven't found any docs on this situation)?


What you document is entirely correct and quite logical AFAICS.  Now, if
you typed "ls vobs" rather than "ls /vobs" and got the same result, that
would be incorrect I believe.



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