To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pivot_root broken in 2.6.15-rc1-mm2
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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:32:25 +0000
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily:
> (Another is that calling chroot and such after deleting their binaries out of 
> initramfs but before the paths are adjusted so that the ones in the new root 
> can find their shared libraries is a bit of a headache.  It's a lot easier to 
> just have it all in one binary that's already loaded everything it needs and 
> frees its memory on exec.)

Oh yes, agreed 100%: this is one of those rare places where doing shell-like
stuff in a tiny dedicated binary really does make sense.

-- 
`Y'know, London's nice at this time of year. If you like your cities
 freezing cold and full of surly gits.' --- David Damerell

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