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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-07-27 18:50:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-09-23 13:11:18 +0200 |
| commit | 7cc1a16df6cce3b4eb87591385d285b51551a955 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f750a9b977ccab2026296eac1e4d105f5f2be79 | |
| parent | fdc558bda9224206828d100ec9c7d0d44cdf755d (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-7cc1a16df6cce3b4eb87591385d285b51551a955.tar.gz | |
pivot_root.2: Introduce mount namespaces in the very first sentence
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/pivot_root.2 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man2/pivot_root.2 b/man2/pivot_root.2 index d7ca80d4af..46c44688c5 100644 --- a/man2/pivot_root.2 +++ b/man2/pivot_root.2 @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ pivot_root \- change the root filesystem There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES. .SH DESCRIPTION .BR pivot_root () -moves the root filesystem of the calling process to the -directory \fIput_old\fP and makes \fInew_root\fP the new root filesystem -of the calling process. +changes the root filesystem in the mount namespace of the calling process. +More precisely, it moves the root filesystem to the +directory \fIput_old\fP and makes \fInew_root\fP the new root filesystem. The calling process must have the .B CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in the user namespace that owns the caller's mount namespace. |