Re: Enabling the chroot() function in PHP 5.4

Hi Aaron, It's better if you ask this question on the PHP internals list, there's hardly anyone compiling it's own PHP here. - Matijn On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Aaron Stephens <aaron.t.stephens@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anybody know how to enable the chroot() function in PHP 5.4? It > was easy in PHP 5.3 as long as you were building the CLI by itself. In the > PHP 5.4 configure script there is a new PHP_BINARIES variable being used > instead of setting PHP_SAPI=cli and thus the "#define ENABLE_CHROOT_FUNC 1" > is never written to the output file. I have been able to manually enable > it by adding the define to the main/php_config.h after running configure. > The issue seems to be a line: if test "program" = "program". This > comparison being true is what causes the configure script to add "cli" to > the PHP_BINARIES variable instead of setting the PHP_SAPI variable. The > other prerequisites (HAVE_CHROOT and ZTS) are all at the required settings. > It is only the ENABLE_CHROOT_FUNC which is causing the function to not be > compiled into the resulting binary. Any information or explanation would > be very helpful. > > For the record, I know what the chroot() function does and does not > do. I am experimenting with using chroot() to isolate an already running > script to a particular subset of the filesystem for file operations. > > -- > > - Aaron > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >