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Re: [MiNT] chroot()
- To: MiNT List <mint@fishpool.com>
 
- Subject: Re: [MiNT] chroot()
 
- From: Tomas Berndtsson <tomas@nocrew.org>
 
- Date: 10 Mar 2000 12:27:59 +0100
 
- In-reply-to: Martin-Éric Racine's message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:21:43 +0200"
 
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Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi> writes:
> On 2000-3-10, Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> 
> > In the last MiNTLib, chroot was still work in progress.  It
> > has now been renamed to Dchroot.
> 
> Why call it Dchroot when other OSes simply call it chroot?
> 
> This can only mean more search & replace when porting new things,
> instead of just typing "make".
You misunderstand. The GEMDOS trap call is called Dchroot(), but
MiNTLib of course has a wrapper which is called chroot().
The same goes for all MiNT - MiNTLib connections.
Tomas