Re: mount_mfs: why chdir?

Rhialto <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:08:44 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.userlevel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 09:00:33 -0400, Mouse wrote:
> In sbin/newfs/newfs.c, I see, inter alia,
> 
> int
> main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> ...
> #ifdef MFS
> 	if (mfs) {
> ...
> 		(void) chdir("/");
> ...
> 		if (mount(MOUNT_MFS, ...) == -1)
> 
> Does anyone happen to know why the chdir to / is there?  It breaks

Maybe it's just for the case where you're mounting on top of one of your
parent directories? In that case you'd be in a directory that no longer
can be reached.

> /~\ The ASCII				  Mouse
-Olaf.
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