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| author | Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org> | 2012-10-14 22:56:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org> | 2012-10-14 23:00:35 +0100 |
| commit | fb5bc26ad64a2deba05bcf3acfd1d28608c1be95 (patch) | |
| tree | 64ba44ddcbbc8983ddbf8cf9e0acca14343e68ce | |
| parent | 0996519314df9c6049b7b79d5a513fcde73a412d (diff) | |
| download | schroot-fb5bc26ad64a2deba05bcf3acfd1d28608c1be95.tar.gz | |
man: Document symlink mountpoint canonicalisation
| -rw-r--r-- | man/schroot-script-config.5.man | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/schroot.conf.5.man | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/schroot-script-config.5.man b/man/schroot-script-config.5.man index 3ad7dea7..bc4cd7f8 100644 --- a/man/schroot-script-config.5.man +++ b/man/schroot-script-config.5.man @@ -52,7 +52,10 @@ The format of this file is the same as for \fI/etc/fstab\fP, documented in .BR fstab (5). The only difference is that the mountpoint path \fIfs_dir\fP is relative to the chroot, rather than the root. Note that this is settable using the -\f[CI]setup.fstab\fP key. +\f[CI]setup.fstab\fP key. Also note that mountpoints are canonicalised on the +host, which will ensure that absolute symlinks point inside the chroot, but +complex paths containing multiple symlinks may be resolved incorrectly; it is +advised to not use nested symlinks as mountpoints. .TP SETUP_NSSDATABASES A file listing the system databases to copy into the chroot. The default diff --git a/man/schroot.conf.5.man b/man/schroot.conf.5.man index 6d85d9f2..7b5d23dd 100644 --- a/man/schroot.conf.5.man +++ b/man/schroot.conf.5.man @@ -170,7 +170,10 @@ The filesystem table file to be used to mount filesystems within the chroot. The format of this file is the same as for \fI/etc/fstab\fP, documented in .BR fstab (5). The only difference is that the mountpoint path \fIfs_dir\fP is relative to the -chroot, rather than the root. +chroot, rather than the root. Also note that mountpoints are canonicalised on +the host, which will ensure that absolute symlinks point inside the chroot, but +complex paths containing multiple symlinks may be resolved incorrectly; it is +inadvisable to use nested symlinks as mountpoints. .TP \f[CBI]setup.nssdatabases=\fP\f[CI]filename\fP A file listing the system databases to copy into the chroot. The default |