What chroot() is really for

Posted Oct 5, 2007 12:49 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
Parent article: What chroot() is really for

chroot() isn't specified by POSIX, so changing its behaviour wouldn't break the standard (though it might break some applications).

Posted Oct 5, 2007 14:04 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Older POSIXes did specify it, and of course it's a user-visible syscall so the usual strict compatibility guarantees apply.