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chroot bug?
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:56:32 +0000
- Subject: chroot bug?
I noticed the following strange behavior in chroot:
$ chroot /bin /sleep 60 &
[1] 16220539
$ readlink /proc/${!}/root # simple test of whether chroot worked
/bin
$ chroot //EBLAKE/share /cygwin/bin/sleep 60 &
[2] 566487
$ readlink /proc/${!}/root # Good - chrooted to a share
//EBLAKE/share
$ chroot // //EBLAKE/share/cygwin/bin/sleep 60 &
[3] 529435
$ readlink /proc/${!}/root # Oops - should be //, not /
/
$ chroot //EBLAKE/share/cygwin/bin/sleep 60 & # Oops, failed to chroot
[4] 566487
$ chroot: cannot chdir to root directory: No such file or directory
Why is chroot failing to find //EBLAKE, when it worked with // (at
least, it slept correctly, although root linked to the wrong place),
and did just fine with //EBLAKE/share?
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Eric Blake
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