Bug 574491 – gnome-pty-helper can prevent volumes from being unmounted

	* gnome-pty-helper/gnome-pty-helper.c: (main): chdir to /.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2390

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4a1bd81..1c7464f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2009-03-15  Christian Persch  <chpe@gnome.org>
 
+	Bug 574491 – gnome-pty-helper can prevent volumes from being unmounted
+
+	* gnome-pty-helper/gnome-pty-helper.c: (main): chdir to /.
+
+2009-03-15  Christian Persch  <chpe@gnome.org>
+
 	* configure.in: Prepare version 0.20.0.
 
 2009-03-15  Christian Persch  <chpe@gnome.org>
diff --git a/gnome-pty-helper/gnome-pty-helper.c b/gnome-pty-helper/gnome-pty-helper.c
index fe502df..130cc24 100644
--- a/gnome-pty-helper/gnome-pty-helper.c
+++ b/gnome-pty-helper/gnome-pty-helper.c
@@ -665,6 +665,12 @@ main (int argc, char *argv [])
 		login_name = login_name_buffer;
 	}
 
+        /* Change directory so we don't prevent unmounting in case the initial cwd
+         * is on an external device (see bug #574491). 
+         */
+	if (chdir ("/") < 0)
+                fprintf (stderr, "Failed to chdir to /: %s\n", strerror (errno));
+ 
 	display_name = getenv ("DISPLAY");
 	if (!display_name)
 		display_name = "localhost";