Re: pivot_root broken in 2.6.15-rc1-mm2

[Nix]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily:
> (Another is that calling chroot and such after deleting their binaries out of 
> initramfs but before the paths are adjusted so that the ones in the new root 
> can find their shared libraries is a bit of a headache.  It's a lot easier to 
> just have it all in one binary that's already loaded everything it needs and 
> frees its memory on exec.)

Oh yes, agreed 100%: this is one of those rare places where doing shell-like
stuff in a tiny dedicated binary really does make sense.

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