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Re: [MiNT] chroot()

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:05:53PM +0200, Tomas Berndtsson wrote:
> Frank Naumann <fnaumann@freemint.de> writes:
> 
> [pipes in chroot'd environment]
> 
> > > > This is a general problem.
> > > is it solvable?
> > At the moment not.
> 
> Couldn't it check specifically for u:\pipe, u:\proc,
> u:\whatelseyouneed, in relpath2cookie(), and only return ENOTDIR when
> curproc->root_dir is set, and the drive is not a special u:\ path?

A lot of overhead.

The problem is that anonymous pipes have to show up in /pipe which is
not necessary IMHO.

Tomas, is it possible that you want to come closer to a real Unix
environment by putting a line "exec /bin/chroot /" in your mint.cnf?  That
doesn't work at the moment.

Ciao

Guido
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