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Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] emerge --root : users not created
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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 18:37 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Ahmed Ammar wrote:
> > > > > so maybe it makes sense to simply have useradd call chroot()
> > > > > according to an option early on in main()?
> > > > 
> > > > This will definitely not work on cross targets?
> > > 
> > > Why not? useradd doesn't fork, it does all file IO on it's own, so I
> > > think it could work.
> > 
> > Well how exactly do you expect chroot to succeed when the host is
> > x86 and the ${ROOT} is arm?
> 
> It should work fine. Note chroot() system call, not the chroot
> utility.

Thanks for clearing that up, makes much more sense now. 

A.