Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Chris January" To: "Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com" Subject: Re: problem with chroot causing Cygwin to get confused about the root directory Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 01:39:38 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: > I'm having a problem with chroot - see the following strace: > At the start of the strace chroot (".") has been called; it > succeeds at time > 63935. (The same problem occurs with chroot( 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. I found if I comment out the following two lines in path.ccc (mount_info::conv_to_posix_path), the problem goes away: if (cygheap->root.exists () && !cygheap->root.posix_ok (mi.posix_path)) continue; can anyone justify their inclusion? 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/