Re:Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
by kazinator on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @12:18PM
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> pivot_root is a system call lets us swap the mount at / with another. Glibc doesn't provide a wrapper for it, but includes a prototype in the man page. I don't really understand, but OK, we'll include our own.
Probably because pivot_root is a speciality that is used in initramfs boostrapping and is exposed to that scriptology via the pivot_root program that comes from the util-linux project.
Probably because pivot_root is a speciality that is used in initramfs boostrapping and is exposed to that scriptology via the pivot_root program that comes from the util-linux project.