On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 00:55 +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: [...] > Btw. initramfs-tools (via switch_root from util-linux) recursively > deletes the files in the initramfs in a forked-off process right > before exec()ing init. Is that really necessary? Shouldn't the > kernel loose the data of the initramfs when the last process using > the mount is replaced with the system's init? (If I look at > /proc/self/mountinfo, there's no entry for the initramfs anymore > after just doing what my PoC does.)
I hadn't noticed that, but it seems to be a recent change in the kernel (somewhere between 3.16 and 4.3). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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