On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:22:11AM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote:
> > I am confused. I thought that once the initramfs init execs the real
> > init, the initramfs is freed. It can't be freed if there are processes
> > that still have open files there, so that would seem to prevent any
> > processes being started in the initramfs and continuing after the real
> > system is booted.
> >
>
> AFAIK it's pivoted and then umounted, which frees it. This doesn't mean
> it has to be freed.. . .
It is neither pivoted nor unmounted.
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- mdz
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