Re: CVS commit: src

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 08:03:46PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: martin
> Date:         Mon Apr 11 20:03:45 UTC 2011
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/distrib/sets/lists/etc: mi
>       src/etc: Makefile
>       src/etc/mtree: NetBSD.dist.base special
> 
> Log Message:
> When run as root, tcpdump will chroot to /var/run/tcpdump - but it can
> not look up /etc/protcols in there. So install a copy of /etc/protocols
> into the chroot area.
> Fixes PR bin/44721.

Wouldn't it be less confusing to have opened /etc/protocols before
doing the chroot ??
This might mean persuading the library code to open /dev/fd/n

        David

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