19 Sep
2017
19 Sep
'17
8:49 a.m.
On Sep 19, 2017, at 08:23, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
You might want to ask this guy
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
That's the userland chroot utility; I got the impression that Evan was asking more about the syscall and the overall chroot mechanism. Couldn't hurt to ask this guy, obviously. I'd start with Poul-Henning Kamp, who discusses chroot as a predecessor to FreeBSD jails in several articles. He's probably fairly responsive to queries, though he may not know the history of chroot() any better. - Dave