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From: Jason Lunz <lunz@gtf.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: jbaron@redhat.com, marcelo@conectiva.com.br,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pivot_root solved by patch to 2.4.22-pre7
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:14:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030815181418.GA9978@reflexsecurity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1060271448.3123.75.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

In gmane.linux.kernel, you wrote:
>> 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.

Is this going to be fixed for 2.4.22? In -rc2, I still get this after
pivot_root (I'm using pivot_root, but not initrd):

	halfoat:0:~ # umount /mnt
	umount: /mnt: device is busy
	halfoat:1:~ # lsof /mnt
	COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
	keventd     2 root    0u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	keventd     2 root    1u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	keventd     2 root    2u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	ksoftirqd   3 root    0u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	ksoftirqd   3 root    1u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	ksoftirqd   3 root    2u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	ksoftirqd   4 root    0u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	ksoftirqd   4 root    1u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	ksoftirqd   4 root    2u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	kswapd      5 root    0u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	kswapd      5 root    1u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	kswapd      5 root    2u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	bdflush     6 root    0u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	bdflush     6 root    1u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	bdflush     6 root    2u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	kupdated    7 root    0u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	kupdated    7 root    1u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	kupdated    7 root    2u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	kjournald  64 root    0u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	kjournald  64 root    1u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console
	kjournald  64 root    2u   CHR    5,1        21 /mnt/dev/console

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-15 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308051506570.26542-100000@dhcp64-178.boston.redhat.com>
2003-08-06  6:27 ` pivot_root solved by patch to 2.4.22-pre7 Rene Mayrhofer
2003-08-06 19:33   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-06 19:51     ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-07  9:34       ` Andreas Haumer
2003-08-07 10:33         ` Rene Mayrhofer
2003-08-07 11:58   ` Alan Cox
2003-08-07 15:26     ` Jason Baron
2003-08-07 15:50       ` Alan Cox
2003-08-07 16:41         ` Jason Baron
2003-08-15 18:14         ` Jason Lunz [this message]
2003-09-23 17:25 Mathias Sundman

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