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<H1>chroot(2)</H1>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
chroot - change root directory
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;unistd.h&gt;</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>chroot(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>dirname</EM><STRONG>)</STRONG>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
<EM>Dirname</EM> is the address of the pathname of a directory, terminated by a
null byte. <STRONG>Chroot</STRONG> 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.
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<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value
of -1 is returned and <STRONG>errno</STRONG> is set to indicate an error.
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<H2>ERRORS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>Chroot</STRONG> will fail and the root directory will be unchanged if one or more
of the following are true:
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path name is not a directory.
[ENAMETOOLONG] The path name exceeds PATH_MAX characters.
[ENOENT] The named directory does not exist.
[EACCES] Search permission is denied for any component of the path
name.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating
the pathname. (Minix-vmd)
[EFAULT] <EM>Path</EM> points outside the process's allocated address space.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the
file system.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="../man2/chdir.2.html">chdir(2)</A></STRONG>.
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