Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@free.fr> writes:

> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> While playing with lxc-start, I noticed that /tmp is infested by
>> empty lxc-r* directories: [...] Ok, this name comes from lxc-rootfs
>> in conf.c:setup_rootfs.  After setup_rootfs_pivot_root returns, the
>> original /tmp is not available anymore, so rmdir(tmpname) at the
>> bottom of setup_rootfs can't achieve much.  Why is this temporary
>> name needed anyway?  Is pivoting impossible without it?
>
> That was put in place with chroot, before pivot_root, so the distro's
> scripts can remount their '/' without failing.
>
> Now we have pivot_root, I suppose we can change that to something cleaner...

Like simply nuking it?  Shall I send a patch?
-- 
Feri.

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