Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758874AbXITSCW (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:02:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755740AbXITSCO (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:02:14 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:34080 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755221AbXITSCO (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:02:14 -0400 Message-ID: <46F2B59F.8090709@davidnewall.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:32:07 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philipp Marek CC: 7eggert@gmx.de, Alan Cox , Bill Davidsen , majkls , bunk@fs.tum.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix References: <952DN-83o-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <56705.193.171.152.61.1190289559.squirrel@webmail.marek.priv.at> <46F29A9A.4070806@davidnewall.com> <200709201817.17282@x5> In-Reply-To: <200709201817.17282@x5> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 18 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... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/