Re: chroot bug, & Re: Ideas for v2.1
Brian Pape (bpape@ezl.com)
Fri, 14 Jun 1996 08:44:11 -0500 (CDT)
> : The man page for chroot on a SysV or BSD system states:
> : chroot causes the given command to be executed relative to
> : the new root. The meaning of any initial slashes (/) in the
> : pathnames is changed for the command and any of its child
> : processes to newroot. Furthermore, upon execution, the
> : initial working directory is newroot.
> :
> : chroot(8) is broken if it doesn't leave you in newroot.
>
> Hmmm, my FreeBSD man page says different:
>
> NAME
> chroot - change root directory
> ...
> DESCRIPTION
> Dirname is the address of the pathname of a directory, terminated by an
> ASCII NUL. Chroot() causes dirname to become the root directory, that
> is, the starting point for path searches of pathnames beginning with `/'.
This is a chroot(3) man page, the behavior of the system call might well
be different than the intended behavior of /usr/bin/chroot.
Brian Pape
bpape@ezl.com