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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-10-09 22:16:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-10-09 23:26:54 +0200 |
| commit | 666373fc08d456ab6a92bae3ae6ee2b12f838fbd (patch) | |
| tree | 1b6550c4d375003abc27a1ea6090a07cc29aa77e /man2/pivot_root.2 | |
| parent | 33313a260ccd688984217a6cebc6f4604baf9028 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-666373fc08d456ab6a92bae3ae6ee2b12f838fbd.tar.gz | |
pivot_root.2: Reword one of the restrictions on 'new_root'
A suggested by Eric Biederman
Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/pivot_root.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/pivot_root.2 | 9 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man2/pivot_root.2 b/man2/pivot_root.2 index ee45eddbca..8c76a86545 100644 --- a/man2/pivot_root.2 +++ b/man2/pivot_root.2 @@ -83,13 +83,10 @@ number of \fI/..\fP to the string pointed to by \fIput_old\fP must yield the same directory as \fInew_root\fP. .IP \- .I new_root -must be a mount point, but can't be +must be a path to a mount point, but can't be .IR """/""" . -If it is not otherwise a mount point, it suffices to bind mount -.I new_root -on top of itself. -.RI ( new_root -can be a bind mounted directory on the current root filesystem.) +A path that is not already a mount point can be converted into one by +bind mounting the path onto itself. .IP \- The propagation type of the parent mount of .IR new_root |