Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:33:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: patches for chroot
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> > be compatible with Unix description that every call to chroot interprets
> > its argument *relative to the previous root*.
> 
> This is mentioned in the descriptions I found for the chroot command, 
> but not in the descriptions (for HPUX & Minux) for the chroot function.

Can somebody with acces to Unix/Linux compile a trivial test program and 
see whether this is true for the function as well?