Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: pivot_root solved by patch to 2.4.22-pre7 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 07 Aug 2003 16:50:49 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2003-08-07 at 16:26, Jason Baron wrote: > it clearly makes a difference. > > the unshare_files change causes init to no longer share the same fd table > with the other kernel threads. thus, when init closes or opens fds it does
Ah yes.. because of do_basic_setup. Having /sbin/init sharing with kernel threads doesn't actually strike me as too clever anyway although none of them should be using fd stuff.
In which case I guess we should call unshare_files directly before we open /dev/console in init/main.c.
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