Quoting Rob Landley (rlandley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx): > But how does pivot_root enter into this when you haven't got an initrd to > free? I thought when you killed a container's init process that killed all But pivot_root isn't just for initrd. At this point I think both libvirt-lxc and lxc.sf.net use pivot_root in favor of chroot for creating containers. Of course there are some stringent rules about the pre-existing old (put) and new roots regarding sharing - you can best see those in fs/namespace.c:pivot_root, i don't know that they're well documented anywhere. > the children and freed the resources, so how does pivot_root enter > into this? (You don't reparent existing processes, you span new ones, > right?) Right. And you do the pivot_root only for the container, not the whole system. Sorry, I'm missing something about what you're saying about killing the container. -serge _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
