linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

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Message-Id: <200702140042.38567.agruen@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:42:38 -0800
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tony Jones <tonyj@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	walt <wa1ter@...ealbox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 00:29, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > What's the point in reporting the rootfs at all -- it's never reachable
> > to an ordinary process?
>
> /init and its childs has it as root, until it passes control over to
> /sbin/init

Yes, that's why I said "ordinary".
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