From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270967AbTGVRqV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:46:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270968AbTGVRqV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:46:21 -0400 Received: from nouse194035.ris.at ([212.52.194.36]:54744 "EHLO mail.gibraltar.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270967AbTGVRqT (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:46:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1D7C80.6020605@gibraltar.at> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:03:44 +0200 From: Rene Mayrhofer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.3.1-3 StumbleUpon/1.73 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Jason Baron , vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: pivot_root seems to be broken in 2.4.21-ac4 References: <1058895650.4161.23.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1058895650.4161.23.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Alan, Alan Cox wrote: > Shouldnt really have changed anything except for security exploits and > threaded apps doing weird stuff. In normal situations the files count is > one so we should actually be executing nothing more exciting that an > atomic_inc/atomic_dec. > > I wonder what is going on here. 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 ?). However, I'd like to use your tree on that machine because of the support for VIA chipsets (it's a VIA EPIA M-6000). Thanks for the notice that it should not have changed, Rene