From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: gotwebd: propagate chroot path to child processes
To: Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>
Cc: Game of Trees <gameoftrees@openbsd.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:07:25 +0100

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 04:10:41PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> Because gotweb's config is read in the parent process, the chroot
> value is never sent to the children of gotwebd.  This effectively
> means that the chroot value in the config is ignored, and as a
> consequence, defaults to "/var/www".
> 
> On some systems, "/var/www" may well exist which is why this bug has
> been masked but on non-BSD systems, this is not always the case.
> 
> OK?

OK by me. Thanks for spotting this.

By the way, the diff in the email you sent has mangled whitespace.