Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Bernd Eckenfels) | Subject | Re: chroot bug, & Re: Ideas for v2.1 | Date | 13 Jun 1996 02:51:06 GMT |
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Elliot Lee (sopwith@redhat.com) wrote: : If, however, I 'cd /; chroot /www /bin/bash', when bash starts up, it is : in the _REAL_ root directory, and I can look at files and such in this : directory with ls, etc... To make it go to the changed root, I must do a : 'cd /' under the chroot shell... : : Hope someone can make sense of this ;-) This is the normal behaviour, since chroot(2) doesnt change the CWD, and chroot(8) doesnt do it eighter. Well, I guess it should be mentioned in the man-page.
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