Perl Programming/Keywords/chroot

The chroot keyword

chroot works like the same system call on UNIX, by changing root directory for all pathnames that start with a / and all of its children to FILENAME. This system call can only be run by the superuser. Without FILENAME, the contents of $_ are used.

Syntax

  chroot FILENAME
  chroot

Examples

  chroot $filename;
  chroot /usr