Is it possible to exit the chroot(2) environment?

[Yuri]

On 2020-09-27 13:25, Kyle Evans wrote:
> +1. I think an additional sentence pointing out that that's the
> traditional behavior would outline that this is perhaps what's needed,
> maybe with a specific EPERM reference.


The fact that chroot(".") undoes the previous chroot(...) call should 
also be documented, IMO. The current chroot(2) man page doesn't mention 
this.

Also chroot apparently preserves the current working directory for the 
purpose of chroot("."), but not for other purposes.

What if chdir(2) with the same string $OLD_WD is called in the chroot 
environment with root in $ROOT_DIR, i.e. chroot($OLD_WD), and it 
succeeds because there happens to be a directory with the same path 
$OLD_WD in the chroot environment too, i.e. $CHROOT_DIR$OLD_WD is a 
valid directory. Would chroot(".") then change root back to the original 
directory $OLD_WD, or it would change it deeper into the root 
environment directory: $CHROOT_DIR$OLD_WD ?


All this makes for a complex and potentially confusing behavior, which 
should be documented, IMO.


Yuri