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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:39:20 -0500
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Subject: Re: updated chroot
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> >   {
> >     /* If the path returned from _fixpath isn't relative
> >        to __djgpp_root, then the path is rejected. */
> >     if (__djgpp_root_len != 0 && *buf != '/')
> I don't see this restriction in the man pages I can access.  It seems that
> a relative path is allowed.

Here I'm saying paths must be relative to the previous root, which is 
__djgpp_root. BTW, how many underscores should I be using?

> What about fchroot?  It seems like in your implementation, all it
> needs to do is to ignore its argument, momentarily set __chroot_flags to
> disable Unix emulation, call chroot with an empty argument, restore the
> flags, and return.
> 

That would work. From what you said previously about making fchroot 
work, I take it there's currently no way set the root path based on a file 
handle? 

Mark

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Mark Elbrecht
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