Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix

From: David Newall
Date: Thu Sep 20 2007 - 14:02:23 EST


Philipp Marek wrote:
AFAIK pivot_root() changes the / mapping for *all* processes, no?

The manual page is confusing. It even admits to being "intentionally vague". However the goal seems clear:

"pivot_root() moves the root file system of the current process to
the directory put_old and makes new_root the new root file system of
the current process"
-- man 2 pivot_root

There's an argument that pivot_root could be improved...
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