From: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Subject: Re: rpm and chroot 20 Sep 1997 23:55:59 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: Alex Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com To the people who were working on getting rpm to work. I was just up late thinging, here's an idea (which I can't try as gnu-win32 isn't working for me right now). In the main file (I'm guessing main.c), make a global variable (say rootdir) char rootdir[1023]="/" (last I checked maximum path length in FreeBSD was 1023, over that and it will return ENAMETOOLONG. In another file say chroot.c /* incorporate snprintf from other locations as it's not in cygwin.dll I think */ extern char rootdir; int chroot(char *rootpath) { /* preform error checking here return -1 if it's invalid and set errno */ strncpy(rootdir,1023,"%s",rootpath); } FILE *rpm_fopen(char *path, char *mode) { char fullpath[1023]; if path[0] == '/' snprintf(fullpath,1023,"%s%s",rootdir,path); else snprintf(fullpath,1023,"%s",path); return fopen(fullpath,mode); } or something similar. Then change all references to fopen, etc, etc to rpm_*. A really ugly kludge but that should allow you to work around chroot if I'm not leaving out something really obvious. - alex - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".