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From: Dick <dick AT mrns DOT nl>
Subject:  Re: Cygwin acts weird to / in a chroot
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:30:52 +0000 (UTC)
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I did some grepping through the Cygwin sources and found some FIXMEs about
chroot.

It seems indeed to be implemented as a very dirty hack. I'm still not sure if
it's caused by a wrong mount. I hope to find some time to create a patch, it
seems interesting :-)

gr
Dick



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