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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 13:28:37 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: chroot patches r3
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Mark E. wrote:
> > /* Succeeds because 'c:/djgpp/bin' is relative to 'c:/djgpp'.
> >    Passing in '/bin' would have also worked. */
> > chroot("c:/djgpp/bin");
> 
> I'm not sure whether we need such a feature.  I think Unix won't allow
> it (can anybody please check this?).  If I'm right, you can simply
> require that an argument doesn't begin with a drive letter, unless the
> current root is empty.

Nope.  After `chroot("/foo")', assuming /foo contains only a directory
`bar', `chroot("/foo/bar")' fails with ENOENT.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com