[syslinux] wierd problem concerning directory, symlinks, chroot

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 29 12:40:54 PST 2002


Aamer Akhter wrote:
>>You must get the client to send the filename as /tftpboot/aaa-config to
>>use this configuration.
> 
> 
> yeah, that's not going to happen due to the userbase. :-(
> 
> would it be possible to get that patch?
> 
> i'm a bit confused, so when you just put a directoryname as the last arg, does
> that not do a cwd onto the directory. it seems that chroot is the only thing
> that is working..

Non-absolute paths are illegal without -s.  That's BSD behaviour and
isn't unique to tftp-hpa.

	-hpa




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