Re: [MiNT] Dchroot question

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

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.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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