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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:15:22 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: patches for chroot
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> 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?

On Linux 2.2.1, it is.  `chroot("/foo"); chroot("/bar")' ==
`chroot("/foo/bar")'. This stands to reason, too, since AFAIK `chroot'
is intended to be a trapdoor; once in the jail you cannot escape.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com