The function was partially implementing chroot lookups. It would be given file names that were prefixed with the chroot, so it would mostly work. But if any of those files were symlinks, fopen() would do the wrong thing. Also we don't need locking. So give 'root' as the argument and use chase_and_fopen_unlocked() to get proper chroot-aware lookups. The only place where config_parse_many() is called with root is is repart.c. So this is a follow-up fore594a3b154and34f2fd5096.
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