OSF

NAME

chroot − Changes the effective root directory

SYNOPSIS

int chroot (
const char ∗path );

PARAMETERS

pathPoints to the new effective root directory.  If the path parameter refers to a symbolic link, the chroot() function sets the effective root directory to the directory pointed to by the symbolic link. 

DESCRIPTION

The chroot() function causes the directory named by the path parameter to become the effective root directory. 

The effective root directory is the starting point when searching for a file’s pathname that begins with a / (slash). The current working directory is not affected by the chroot() function. 

The calling process must have superuser privilege in order to change the effective root directory. The calling process must also have search access to the new effective root directory. 

The .. (dot-dot) entry in the effective root directory is interpreted to mean the effective root directory itself. Thus, .. (dot-dot) cannot be used to access files outside the subtree rooted at the effective root directory. 

NOTES

AES Support Level:
Trial use

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 (zero) is returned. If the chroot() function fails, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. 

ERRORS

If the chroot() function fails, the effective root directory remains unchanged and errno may be set to one of the following values:

[EACCES]Search permission is denied for any component of the pathname. 

[EPERM]The process does not have appropriate privilege. 

[EFAULT]The path parameter points outside the process’ allocated address space. 

[EIO]An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. 

[ENOENT]The path parameter does not exist or points to an empty string. 

[ENAMETOOLONG]
The length of the path argument exceeds PATH_MAX or a pathname component is longer than NAME_MAX. 

[ENOTDIR]A component of path is not a directory. 

[ELOOP]More than MAXSYMLINKS symbolic links are encountered while resolving path. 

RELATED INFORMATION

Functions: chdir(2)

Commands: chdir(1)