Re: [PATCH 12/18] shared mount handling: bind and rbind

> > If you don't want to be able to get back the old root, just close all
> > file descriptors _in addition_ to chroot() and chdir().
> 
> If you try the chdir by filedescriptor trick on the stdin/stdout/stderr fed 
> into PID 1 when it's started up by the kernel, which filesystem do you wind 
> up in?  (rootfs?)

You can't fchdir() to a non-directory, so this shouldn't be an issue.

Miklos
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