Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0
content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="us-ascii"
Subject: RE: problem with chroot causing Cygwin to get confused about the root directory
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:32:53 -0500
Message-ID: <83040F98B407E6428FEC18AC720F5D73E5010E@exchange.tropicnetworks.com>
X-MS-Has-Attach: 
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 
From: "Rolf Campbell" <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
To: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>,
   "Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id gB1NX1n28765

When I try "chroot ." in bash I get:
$ chroot .
chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris January [mailto:chris AT atomice DOT net] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 5:08 PM
> To: Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com
> Subject: RE: problem with chroot causing Cygwin to get 
> confused about the root directory
> 
> 
> > I'm having a problem with chroot - see the following strace:
> 
> <--snip-->
> 
> > At the start of the strace chroot (".") has been called; it 
> succeeds 
> > at time 63935. (The same problem occurs with chroot(<full path to
> > rootfs>) as well).
> > Then chdir ("/") is called at time 64000. The result of 
> > conv_to_posix_path at time 2652 should be '/', but is instead 
> > /cygdrive/c/... I'll look at the Cygwin source, but has anyone else 
> > any ideas as I suspect it may take me some time to track this down.
> 
> In the same vain, chroot . in bash goes into an infinite loop.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
> Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
> 
> 

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/