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Re: chroot("/") can't work.
>>> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:41:02 +0100
>>> Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> said:
> If it's possible to set root to an empty string by calling
> chroot("/") this could result in the ability to break out of the
> chroot environment. This is not ok. But, hmm, this shouldn't
> be possible...
If cyg_root has been set other than an empty string, chroot("/")
can't set it to an empty string. The argument is processed by
normalize_posix_path.
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| AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
| HOKURIKU School of Information Science
o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology