chroot and mount question

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) lhall@rfk.com
Mon Jul 30 08:58:00 GMT 2001


At 11:32 AM 7/30/2001, Noel L Yap wrote:
>If I have the following mount structure:
>d:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
>v: on /view type user (binmode)
>d:\cygwin on /view/nyap-tig-du type user (binmode)
>v:\nyap-tig-du on /view/nyap-tig-du/vobs type user (binmode)
>
>and the following directory structure:
>/
>/cygwin
>/cygwin/bin
>/view
>/view/view0
>/view/view0/vobs
>/view/view0/vobs/vob0
>/vobs
>/vobs/vob1
>
>what should the behaviour of:
>      chroot /view/view0
>      ls /vobs
>
>be?
>
>I'm hoping the answer would be:
>      vob0
>
>but what I'm getting is:
>      vob1
>
>Is this correct behaviour (I haven't found any docs on this situation)?


What you document is entirely correct and quite logical AFAICS.  Now, if
you typed "ls vobs" rather than "ls /vobs" and got the same result, that
would be incorrect I believe.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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