Quoting David Newall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >> No reason for any new parameters to pivot_root. Just clone your mounts >> namespace first. >> >> unshare(CLONE_NEWNS); >> chdir(new_dir); >> pivot_root(new_dir, oldroot); >> >> Since pivot_root actually fiddles with the vfsmnts, this is really the >> only way to go about having it "work with just one process". > > I think the point is that, whereas we'd like to be able to pivot the root > for a single process, in practice this causes startup issues to which the > easy solution is to pivot the whole system. At least that's my reading of > the man page. > > It might be tidy if pivot_root could be used (instead of a hack based on a > chroot bug), but it'd still be unportable.
Oh. Yes, true, it is unportable. -serge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
