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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: "Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com" <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: <LPEHIHGCJOAIPFLADJAHMELKDBAA.chris@atomice.net>
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In-Reply-To: <LPEHIHGCJOAIPFLADJAHIELFDBAA.chris@atomice.net>

> 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(<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.

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


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