From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Yang Bo <rslovers@yandex.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pivot_root.2: new_root must be a mountpoint
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:34:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc107b16-647b-0ce1-e84e-b8484feacce9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190919053801.bwqWTilN@vla3-2bcfd5e94671.qloud-c.yandex.net>
Hello Yang Bo,
On 9/19/19 4:38 AM, Yang Bo wrote:
> The man page says that new_root does not have be a mountpoint
> but it must be, I tried to pivot_root into a non-mountpoint
> directory and always failed with EINVAL, the kernel source
> fs/namespace.c confirms that, to quote a comment from this file:
>
> - it's okay to pick a root that isn't the root of a file system, e.g.
> - /nfs/my_root where /nfs is the mount point. It must be a mountpoint,
> - though, so you may need to say mount --bind /nfs/my_root /nfs/my_root
> - first.
Yes, you are correct. There are in fact many problems in the
current pivot_root(2) page, and I am in the process of
substantially revising it.
Thanks
Michael
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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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