From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at>,
7eggert@gmx.de, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
majkls <majkls@prepere.com>,
bunk@fs.tum.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:53:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F2DDD0.3030500@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F2B59F.8090709@davidnewall.com>
David Newall wrote:
> Philipp Marek wrote:
>> AFAIK pivot_root() changes the / mapping for *all* processes, no?
>>
>
> The manual page is confusing. It even admits to being "intentionally
> vague". However the goal seems clear:
>
> "pivot_root() moves the root file system of the current process to
> the directory put_old and makes new_root the new root file system of
> the current process"
> -- man 2 pivot_root
>
> There's an argument that pivot_root could be improved...
>
And very little argument that the man page could be improved, perhaps.
However, there is no question that pivot_root is intended to have
breadth for more than one process.
Keeping this functionality sounds a little like putting a bow tie and
tux on your bug and calling it a "feature." Not all bugs are useless for
legitimate purposes, but it doesn't make them safe. It appears to be a
sort-of way to get per-process bind mounts.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-09-20 11:13 ` sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix Bodo Eggert
2007-09-20 11:59 ` Philipp Marek
2007-09-20 12:52 ` majkls
2007-09-20 16:06 ` David Newall
2007-09-20 16:17 ` Philipp Marek
2007-09-20 18:02 ` David Newall
2007-09-20 20:53 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-09-21 8:29 ` David Newall
2007-09-24 21:32 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-24 22:04 ` David Newall
2007-09-24 23:00 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-25 7:45 ` David Newall
2007-09-25 11:49 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-25 13:58 ` David Newall
2007-09-25 15:10 ` Chroot bug (was: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix) David Newall
2007-09-25 15:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 15:39 ` Chroot bug Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 15:41 ` David Newall
2007-09-25 15:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 16:19 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 16:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 17:00 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 17:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 17:09 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 17:09 ` Al Viro
2007-09-25 17:19 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 16:53 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-25 20:51 ` David Newall
2007-09-25 15:30 ` Chroot bug (was: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix) Alan Cox
2007-09-25 15:35 ` Chroot bug David Newall
2007-09-25 15:48 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-25 15:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 23:50 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 0:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 10:24 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 10:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 11:06 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 11:20 ` Alan Cox
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2007-09-26 11:34 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-26 14:09 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 13:13 ` Bongani Hlope
2007-09-26 0:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-26 5:21 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-26 5:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-09-26 10:27 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 10:45 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-09-26 11:13 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 13:18 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-26 15:02 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-09-26 12:54 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-26 13:11 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-26 13:42 ` Al Viro
2007-09-26 14:51 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-26 14:02 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-26 15:01 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-27 13:49 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-09-25 16:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-09-25 15:32 ` Chroot bug (was: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix) Adrian Bunk
2007-09-25 15:43 ` Chroot bug Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 16:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-26 19:23 ` Chroot bug (was: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix) Bodo Eggert
2007-09-24 23:02 ` sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix Serge E. Hallyn
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2007-09-26 9:38 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2007-09-19 7:19 majkls
2007-09-19 9:40 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-19 18:27 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-19 18:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-19 22:24 ` David Newall
2007-09-21 17:39 ` Phillip Susi
2007-09-21 18:10 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-25 20:53 ` Phillip Susi
2007-09-26 0:23 ` Al Viro
2007-09-26 10:34 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 11:22 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 11:56 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 14:10 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 15:03 ` Chris Adams
2007-09-26 16:54 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 17:04 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 17:18 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 17:29 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 17:28 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 18:40 ` Al Viro
2007-09-26 19:24 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-09-26 21:19 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 21:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-26 23:35 ` David Newall
2007-09-27 0:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-27 3:59 ` Al Viro
2007-09-27 6:42 ` David Newall
2007-09-27 6:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-27 7:28 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-09-27 11:23 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-27 14:36 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-28 1:06 ` David Newall
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