From 1617f24aba3c5fa51555e7242143caa793135bd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "monty@tik.mysql.fi" <>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:15:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Do chroot() after changing user.

---
 sql/mysqld.cc | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sql/mysqld.cc b/sql/mysqld.cc
index 94fe76f8408..d91d6c2ba5b 100644
--- a/sql/mysqld.cc
+++ b/sql/mysqld.cc
@@ -977,11 +977,14 @@ static void server_init(void)
     }
   }
 
+  /*
+    We have to first call set_user(), then set_root(), to get things to work
+    with glibc
+  */
+  set_user(mysqld_user);		// Works also with mysqld_user==NULL
   if (mysqld_chroot)
     set_root(mysqld_chroot);
 
-  set_user(mysqld_user); // set_user now takes care of mysqld_user==NULL
-
 #ifdef __NT__
   /* create named pipe */
   if (Service.IsNT() && mysql_unix_port[0] && !opt_bootstrap)