X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19sZOTqxDZBhXZG01g0Bn9F Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 15:09:31 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ls / under chroot Message-ID: <20121106200931.GA28548@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <002f01cdbc3c$05a0db20$10e29160$@ieee.org> <50993D90 DOT 1040005 AT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50993D90.1040005@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:40:48PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: >On 11/6/2012 5:30 PM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> The following output was observed when implementing anonymous ftp (chrooted) >> on XP with the latest Cygwin >> Looks like the /cygdrive, /dev and /proc entries are generated even for >> chrooted / >> >> ftp> ls >> 200 PORT command successful. >> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. >> total 24 >> dr-xr-xr-x 1 Guest None 0 Nov 5 21:37 cygdrive >> dr-xr-xr-x 1 Guest None 0 Nov 5 21:37 dev >> -rw-r----- 1 Guest None 46956 Nov 5 20:17 ftpd.c >> proc: No such file or directory >> 226 Transfer complete. > >see last sentence on "File Access" paragraph >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-files That sentence is true but it is debatable whether cygdrive and dev should be available in a chrooted environment. There probably is no reason for cygdrive but dev might be necessary since you can't just mount it currently. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple