From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268102AbTGVTwD (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:52:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268177AbTGVTwC (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:52:02 -0400 Received: from crosslink-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.254]:19950 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268102AbTGVTwB (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:52:01 -0400 Subject: Re: pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4 From: Alan Cox To: Rene Mayrhofer Cc: Jason Baron , vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3F1D7C80.6020605@gibraltar.at> References: <1058895650.4161.23.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3F1D7C80.6020605@gibraltar.at> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1058904025.4160.30.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 22 Jul 2003 21:00:25 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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