Re: chroot bug, & Re: Ideas for v2.1

Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@tapac.inka.de)
13 Jun 1996 02:51:06 GMT


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.

Greetings
Bernd

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