Re: pivot_root broken in 2.6.15-rc1-mm2

From: Nix (nix_at_esperi.org.uk)
Date: 11/25/05

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    To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
    Date:	Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:32:25 +0000
    
    

    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.

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