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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/COHERENT/chroot, revision 1.1

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        !             3: chroot()               COHERENT System Call              chroot()
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        !             8: Change process's root directory
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        !            10: iinntt cchhrroooott(_d_i_r_e_c_t_o_r_y)
        !            11: cchhaarr *_d_i_r_e_c_t_o_r_y;
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        !            13: The root directory is the directory from which file-name searches
        !            14: commence when  a path name  begins with `/'.   chroot changes the
        !            15: root directory to directory for the requesting process and all of
        !            16: its children.
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        !            18: Because of security  problems, chroot is restricted to the super-
        !            19: user.  It is sometimes useful for a system administrator; for ex-
        !            20: ample, to test a new system environment that resides on a mounted
        !            21: file system.
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        !            23: ***** See Also *****
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        !            25: chdir(), COHERENT system calls, fork()
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        !            27: ***** Diagnostics *****
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        !            29: chroot returns zero for a  successful call.  It returns -1 on er-
        !            30: rors, such as the caller not being the superuser or the directory
        !            31: being nonexistent or not a directory.
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