Re: pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 15:00:25 EST


> If it is not expected behaviour that the kernel processes no longer
> close their fds open an pivot_root, then I'd like to debug this (is my
> use of pivot_root correct or am I doing something wrong here ?). I will
> try with vanilla 2.4.21 now and see how that goes (or should I rather
> try 2.4.22-pre7 ?).

2.4.22pre7 has the unshare_files fix - its a security fix.

It should not have changed the behaviour so I'm very interested to know if
that specific patch set changes the behaviour and precisely what your code
is doing

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