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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-07-30 16:09:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-09-23 13:11:19 +0200 |
| commit | fc17fc65024a10161e2334711fbd22e7d69665c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 67aeeb19324bdeb6d181159bef5ea9d50a0d3398 /man2 | |
| parent | d761305516231f30fc3a231586411d91241e79f8 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-fc17fc65024a10161e2334711fbd22e7d69665c7.tar.gz | |
pivot_root.2: srcfix: FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/pivot_root.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man2/pivot_root.2 b/man2/pivot_root.2 index 5b4e38659e..6853e9bd9a 100644 --- a/man2/pivot_root.2 +++ b/man2/pivot_root.2 @@ -94,6 +94,14 @@ similarly, if .I put_old is an existing mount point, its propagation type must not be .BR MS_SHARED . +.\" FIXME +.\" mtk: I am very suspicious of the following paragraph. My testing suggests +.\" that pivot_root() fails with the error EINVAL in the case where +.\" the current root (after chroot()) is not a mount point. And tehre are +.\" these lines in pivot_root(): +.\" error = -EINVAL; +.\" if (root.mnt->mnt_root != root.dentry) +.\" goto out4; /* not a mountpoint */ .PP If the current root is not a mount point (e.g., after an earlier .BR chroot (2)), |