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Subject: pkg_info fails with "leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''"
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Mike Clarke,

I'm seeing the same problem with pkg_info on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE.
However, I also found that even when running as the root user, if 
I'm in a chroot jail, it does not fail.

Henry Wong