Re: shmem_file_setup creating SYSV00000000 files in (ext3) rootfilesystem

[Christoph Rohland]

Hi Ryan,

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003, desrt@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> the problem is caused by the fact that the checks that
> shmem_file_setup does to determine the location of the mountpoint of
> tmpfs fail to take into account the effect of pivot_root.

No, see below.

> and somehow as a result, this happens:
> peloton:/proc# grep deleted */maps
> 17923/maps:4201a000-4207a000 rw-s 00000000 00:04 21233690  
> /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
> [many many many lines follow]
> 
> if you have any advice or can confirm to me that this is actually a
> bug in the kernel, please reply.  i'm not on the list.

It's not a bug. It is simply a display issue designed in this
way. These names are artificial names which were never linked to a real
directory entry. So they end up displayed in this way. But they are
not connected to your root filesystem.

Greetings
		Christoph


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