You might want to ask this guy http://www.frob.com/~roland/ He is the author on all the man pages for the open source version chroot I wouldn't be surprised if it was him https://github.com/wertarbyte/coreutils/blob/master/src/chroot.c http://manpages.courier-mta.org/htmlman1/chroot.1.html He can probably tell you. On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:29 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Help me with a research thingamajig.
I want to find out who made Chroot.
Wikipedia -- purely as a starting point -- shows a comment in the Chroot talk page stating, "This system call was present [in] AT&T versions of Unix well before 1982. This citation should be changed to point to an AT&T version. Indeed, Research's UNIX V7 sources (usr/sys/sys/sysent.c dated May 7th, 1979) has an entry at position 61 for chroot(2); the fact is even noted under the article about V7..."
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AChroot#Bill_Joy_did_not_invent_chroot
I know many of you are old-school Unix users/developers and some of you worked at AT&T.
Who can help me find out which specific people (I need names) actually invented Chroot?
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