Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:41:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Rene Mayrhofer <rene.mayrhofer@gibraltar.at>,
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Subject: Re: pivot_root solved by patch to 2.4.22-pre7
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On 7 Aug 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Iau, 2003-08-07 at 16:26, Jason Baron wrote:
> > it clearly makes a difference.
> > 
> > the unshare_files change causes init to no longer share the same fd table
> > with the other kernel threads. thus, when init closes or opens fds it does
> 
> Ah yes.. because of do_basic_setup. Having /sbin/init sharing with
> kernel threads doesn't actually strike me as too clever anyway although
> none of them should be using fd stuff.
> 
> In which case I guess we should call unshare_files directly before we
> open /dev/console in init/main.c.
> 

ok, but what if we re-exec init a couple of times? 

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