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All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
@(#)chroot.2 6.3 (Berkeley) 8/26/85
CHROOT 2 "August 26, 1985"
C 5 NAME
chroot - change root directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int chroot(const char *dirname)
DESCRIPTION
Dirname is the address of the pathname of a directory, terminated by a null byte.
Chroot causes this directory
to become the root directory,
the starting point for path names beginning with ``/''.
In order for a directory to become the root directory a process must have execute (search) access to the directory.
This call is restricted to the super-user.
"RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise,
a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate an error.
ERRORS
Chroot will fail and the root directory will be unchanged if
one or more of the following are true:
15 [ENOTDIR] A component of the path name is not a directory.
15 [ENAMETOOLONG] The path name exceeds PATH_MAX characters.
15 [ENOENT] The named directory does not exist.
15 [EACCES] Search permission is denied for any component of the path name.
15 [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. (Minix-vmd)
15 [EFAULT] Path points outside the process's allocated address space.
15 [EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
"SEE ALSO"
chdir (2).