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32 | .\" @(#)chroot.2 6.5 (Berkeley) 3/10/91 |
33 | .\" | |
34 | .Dd March 10, 1991 | |
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35 | .Dt CHROOT 2 |
36 | .Os BSD 4.2 | |
37 | .Sh NAME | |
38 | .Nm chroot | |
39 | .Nd change root directory | |
40 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
41 | .Fd #include <unistd.h> | |
42 | .Ft int | |
43 | .Fn chroot "const char *dirname" | |
44 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
45 | .Fa Dirname | |
46 | is the address of the pathname of a directory, terminated by an ASCII NUL. | |
47 | .Fn Chroot | |
48 | causes | |
49 | .Fa dirname | |
b7793121 | 50 | to become the root directory, |
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51 | that is, the starting point for path searches of pathnames |
52 | beginning with | |
53 | .Ql / . | |
54 | .Pp | |
b7793121 | 55 | In order for a directory to become the root directory |
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56 | a process must have execute (search) access for that directory. |
57 | .Pp | |
9369d86e | 58 | It should be noted that |
931b8415 | 59 | .Fn chroot |
9369d86e | 60 | has no effect on the process's current directory. |
931b8415 | 61 | .Pp |
b7793121 | 62 | This call is restricted to the super-user. |
931b8415 | 63 | .Sh RETURN VALUES |
b7793121 | 64 | Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, |
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65 | a value of -1 is returned and |
66 | .Va errno | |
67 | is set to indicate an error. | |
68 | .Sh ERRORS | |
69 | .Fn Chroot | |
70 | will fail and the root directory will be unchanged if: | |
71 | .Bl -tag -width [ENOTDIR] | |
72 | .It Bq Er ENOTDIR | |
b7793121 | 73 | A component of the path name is not a directory. |
931b8415 | 74 | .It Bq Er EINVAL |
b5984ffe | 75 | The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set. |
931b8415 | 76 | .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG |
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77 | A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, |
78 | or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. | |
931b8415 | 79 | .It Bq Er ENOENT |
b7793121 | 80 | The named directory does not exist. |
931b8415 | 81 | .It Bq Er EACCES |
b5984ffe | 82 | Search permission is denied for any component of the path name. |
931b8415 | 83 | .It Bq Er ELOOP |
b5984ffe | 84 | Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. |
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85 | .It Bq Er EFAULT |
86 | .Fa Path | |
b7793121 | 87 | points outside the process's allocated address space. |
931b8415 | 88 | .It Bq Er EIO |
fd690c8b | 89 | An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. |
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90 | .El |
91 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
92 | .Xr chdir 2 | |
93 | .Sh HISTORY | |
94 | The | |
95 | .Nm | |
96 | function call appeared in | |
97 | .Bx 4.2 . |