Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:15:22 +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: updated chroot
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> > 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.

Sorry, I just didn't read the source correctly.  You are right.

> BTW, how many underscores should I be using?

Two is better for externals that aren't supposed to be used by
applications.

> 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? 

The handle should come from opening a directory, and DOS/Windows don't
allow to open a directory.  So we cannot use a real handle.