Re: initchroot feature?

[Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com>]

On Fri Jun 09, 2000 at 08:07:38AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> > Since Woody will be using the 2.4 kernel, we will be able to use the new "pivot
> > root" feature to do this, whic does essentially the same thing, but does it
> > much cleaner.  The current "initchroot" stuff in dbootstrap and in busybox init
> > will be replaced with new stuff to do the "pivot root" thing.  But this is
> > definately Woddy stuff.
> 
> I looked through the 2.4.X kernel source and could not find the initchroot
> feature. (grep -r initchroot)

pivot root is what you want to search for.  initchroot was an initial 
hack that someone did, and "pivot root" is what actually went into the
mainline kernel.

 -Erik

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