CHROOT(2) BSD System Calls Manual CHROOT(2)NAME
chroot — change root directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
chroot(const char *dirname);
DESCRIPTION
Dirname is the address of the pathname of a directory, terminated by an
ASCII NUL. Chroot() causes dirname to become the root directory, that
is, the starting point for path searches of pathnames beginning with ‘/’.
In order for a directory to become the root directory a process must have
execute (search) access for that directory.
It should be noted that chroot() has no effect on the process's current
directory.
This call is restricted to the super-user.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value
of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate an error.
ERRORSChroot() will fail and the root directory will be unchanged if:
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path name is not a directory.
[EINVAL] The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
[ENAMETOOLONG]
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
entire path name exceeded 1023 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.
[EFAULT] Path points outside the process's allocated address space.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the
file system.
SEE ALSOchdir(2)HISTORY
The chroot function call appeared in 4.2BSD.
4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 4, 1993 4.2 Berkeley Distribution