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SableEA
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 Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2024 8:39 am Post subject: Strange behaviour with . directory |
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I turned off computer with gentoo installation on the stage Installing the Gentoo installation files (I unpacked archive.). After turning on I mounted needed partitions of disk | Code: | | cd /mnt/gentoo; mnt /dev/sda3 . |
Then there where strange behaviour: output of showed me all files, but output of just was nothing
I understood that this is problem with . directory, because working with direct path /mnt/gentoo was normal, but with . directory not (I retried ls, find and file commands).
I decided to make something with . directory, so I just wrote
And there is surprise: after that ls command and another commands with . worked normal
Why did it happened? |
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fedeliallalinea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2024 10:35 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Installing Gentoo.
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 1:08 am Post subject: Re: Strange behaviour with . directory |
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| SableEA wrote: | | output of showed me all files, but output of just was nothing |
This is expected, the latter command shows current directory just after you booted the Gentoo live USB; this is empty by default. |
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Chiitoo
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| Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not entirely sure how to explain it at this time, but the current work directory doesn't seem to get "updated" for the mount.
I see the same behaviour if I 'cd /to/some/dir' and 'bind' mount anything to it: the 'ls' command will not show anything until I 'cd' to that directory again.
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sublogic
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Interesting. Mounting to the current working directory is different. Here's a test: (/dev/sda2 is my boot partition.) | Code: | # ls -a toto
. ..
# cd toto
# touch HI_THERE
# ls -a
. .. HI_THERE
# mount -o ro /dev/sda2 .
# ls -a
. .. HI_THERE
# cd ..
# cd toto
# ls -a
. grub
.. initramfs-5.15.19
.keep initramfs-generic
System.map-6.6.38-gentoo-x86_64 intel-uc.img
System.map-6.6.47-gentoo-x86_64 lost+found
amd-uc.img vmlinuz-6.6.38-gentoo-x86_64
config-6.6.38-gentoo-x86_64 vmlinuz-6.6.47-gentoo-x86_64
config-6.6.47-gentoo-x86_64
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Mounting a filesystem hides whatever was under the mount point. BUT if a process had the mount point as its working directory, the old content remains visible to that process. (In the above test, changing out of toto lost the pointer to the old content.)
Might be interesting to follow this in the kernel sources.
Question: can the process can give the old content to another process by open(".") and passing the descriptor through an AF_UNIX socket ? |
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