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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2591 comp.os.386bsd.questions:14406 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: chroot() in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Date: 12 Nov 1994 17:12:33 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <KSTAILEY.94Nov12121233@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <39vvl6$90m@clavin.uprc.com> <3a06kq$9bs@dagny.galt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu's message of 11 Nov 1994 16:37:46 GMT > Big question: why can't normal users call chroot??? What version of Unix was the first to have chroot(2)? It's not in Sixth Edition, my photocopy of the Lion's Book reveals this. It is in MINIX 1.0 which is supposed to only have Seventh Edition system calls. That would mean Ken Thompson or Dennis Ritchie is to blame. ;-) Go ask them, I sure they love being bugged by dumb questions about UNIX, even though they are busy with Plan 9. Ken