chroot.diff

[Ricardo Cerqueira]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:44:09PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> hi, what is the rationale for the while() loop? why multiple chroot's?
>

There aren't multiple chroots. Just one, when it finds the "magic token" in
the userdir. 
The while cycle runs the full homedir string and chops the
first char away in each loop, until the magic token is found (i.e., the
first 3 chars of the string are "/./"). When that happens, the magic token 
gets replaced by a NULL, which in effect transforms the full userdir into 
the new root. Only then it tries to chroot.

RC
 
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