Fix chroot trying to change into non-existent directory #7803
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tertsdiepraam
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The GNU coreutils test suite would have caught this if run as root. |
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I tried to use the uutils
chrootbinary, it failed saying it can't switch to the new root. I found that the line I'm changing in this PR was the culprit, and commented it out. This made it work, however the new shell opened in the directory I had previously opened (I believe it was mapped inside the new root somewhere). Changing theset_current_dircall to target/(which is always the new root AFAIK, since this call runs afterchroot) seems to do the right thing (it worked for me).I did not look into how other implementations of
chrootwork, I only observed that this implementation was broken (initially the version AerynOS ships, then a self-built binary from the latest state of this repo, a little over two weeks ago), and played around with it until I had a fix that worked, and seemed reasonable, to me.