chroot

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5)

chroot -- change the root directory

Description

bool chroot (string directory)

Changes the root directory of the current process to directory. Returns FALSE if unable to change the root directory, TRUE otherwise.

Note: It's not wise to use this function when running in a webserver environment, because it's not possible to reset the root directory to / again at the end of the request. This function will only function correct when running as CGI this way.