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Re: transition from 2.9 to 2.10 goes pretty smooth

From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
To: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57 at fastmail dot fm>
Cc: libc-help at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:51:44 -0400
Subject: Re: transition from 2.9 to 2.10 goes pretty smooth
References: <dd18b0c30905141633s61f7ac5ct3285b78679a882d8@mail.gmail.com> <119aab440906220648u5d16efemf3b46a55d3bf3016@mail.gmail.com> <20090622235314.f3ef2b7b.eekee57@fastmail.fm>

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis<eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> The correct way is:
>> 1) Use alternate root fs.
>> 2) Install glibc into target root fs using tools from alternate root fs.
>> 3) Pivot into the new root fs.
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "pivot" here. It's been some time since I played with pivot_root() but I'm pretty sure it's not capable of substituting "cached and loaded" shared libraries within already-running applications. AFAIK the only way to do that is to restart every running process linked against glibc, AKA almost everything.

I should not have said pivot here since it would appear to imply using
pivot_root(), I should have said reboot.

Cheers,
Carlos.

References:
- Re: transition from 2.9 to 2.10 goes pretty smooth
  - From: Carlos O'Donell
- Re: transition from 2.9 to 2.10 goes pretty smooth
  - From: Ethan Grammatikidis

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