on Tue 19-10-1999 01:03 Guido Flohr wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Not a solution but a possible work-around: There somehow wasn't a big
>hello for an important feature added to the kernel by Frank, the new
>Dchroot system call. Add
>
> #define Dchroot(dir) \
> trap_1_wl(0x14a, (long)(dir))
>
>to your mintbind.h. You can then easily write a C wrapper around CAB,
>changing its root directory to something like /path/to/cab (but don't
>forget to chdir before the exec). The chroot will prevent CAB from
>leaving its root directory and at least you can limit the possible damage.
>
>This is the Dchroot(2) manual page:
This sounds nice, only I don't understand a single word of it. Remember
I'm a common user of MiNT with no knowledge of programming at all.
Anyway thanks
Martin
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