Re: [MiNT] Dchroot question

[Tomas Berndtsson <tomas@nocrew.org>]

Frank Naumann <fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> writes:

> Hello!
> 
> > What I want to know, is what MiNT does when you feed a path like
> > "C:\something\" to Dchroot(), and then you try to access "/some/file"? 
> > 
> > I'd also like to know what directory one will get to (if any), if you
> > have Dchroot()'ed to for example "/mnt/" and try to access
> > "C:\some\file". Maybe the last one will give an error?
> 
> Yes, after Dchroot() only Unix adressing allowed. All C: adressing will be
> rejected.
> 
> > Since all drives, C:, D:, a.s.o. have their own current directories in
> > TOS/MiNT, do they also have their own root directory saved?
> 
> No.
> 
> > Another thing, from what I could read in MiNT, Dchroot() changes the
> > current directory to within the new root, is that right? If so, it's
> 
> No.

Ok, sounds good. Thanks a lot.


Tomas