Re: pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 18:38:09 EST


On Maw, 2003-07-22 at 23:14, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> /sbin/init used to start up with files->count > 1 and does
> close(0);close(1);close(2); -> kernel thread fds close.
>
> Now with unshare_files() and init's files->count ==1 the kernel threads
> /dev/console fds remain open. But one could ask of course so what :)

In other words the kernel side got caught out because it assumed
the bogus thread behaviour and needs some close() calls adding. That
would make sense.

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