Timeline for What is the old_root concept in pivot_root?

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Dec 12, 2019 at 10:54	comment	added	user313992		Or something like that. Unless you, I'm taking at heart the warning from the BUGS section of the `pivot_root(2)` manpage: "Some of the more obscure uses of `pivot_root()` may quickly lead to insanity".
Dec 12, 2019 at 10:51	comment	added	user313992		`pivot_root(2)` is a special purpose, one use only interface; it's not something generally useful. Think of it as of a `chroot(2)` which let you discard the old root (and all the resources it kept hold of). If the old root weren't put somewhere inside the new root tree, you would not be able to ever unmount it and get rid of it for good.
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Dec 12, 2019 at 9:19	history	edited	muru	CC BY-SA 4.0	provide the source of your quote
Dec 12, 2019 at 9:09	history	asked	Karthik Nedunchezhiyan	CC BY-SA 4.0