Re: pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 07/22/03

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    To: Rene Mayrhofer <rene.mayrhofer@gibraltar.at>
    Date:	22 Jul 2003 21:00:25 +0100
    
    

    > 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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