RE: problem with chroot causing Cygwin to get confused about the root directory

["Rolf Campbell" <rcampbell at tropicnetworks dot com>]

When I try "chroot ." in bash I get:
$ chroot .
chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris January [mailto:chris@atomice.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 5:08 PM
> To: Cygwin@Cygwin.Com
> Subject: RE: problem with chroot causing Cygwin to get 
> confused about the root directory
> 
> 
> > I'm having a problem with chroot - see the following strace:
> 
> <--snip-->
> 
> > At the start of the strace chroot (".") has been called; it 
> succeeds 
> > at time 63935. (The same problem occurs with chroot(<full path to
> > rootfs>) as well).
> > Then chdir ("/") is called at time 64000. The result of 
> > conv_to_posix_path at time 2652 should be '/', but is instead 
> > /cygdrive/c/... I'll look at the Cygwin source, but has anyone else 
> > any ideas as I suspect it may take me some time to track this down.
> 
> In the same vain, chroot . in bash goes into an infinite loop.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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