ping - suid, runner
ping6 - suid, runner
pipe_progress - longterm
-pivot_root - nofork candidate? the code is trivial
+pivot_root - NOFORK
pkill - nofork candidate(xregcomp, procps_scan - are they ok?)
pmap - noexec candidate, leaks: open+xstrdup
popmaildir - runner
//config: Note: This is for initrd in linux 2.4. Under initramfs (introduced
//config: in linux 2.6) use switch_root instead.
-//applet:IF_PIVOT_ROOT(APPLET(pivot_root, BB_DIR_SBIN, BB_SUID_DROP))
+//applet:IF_PIVOT_ROOT(APPLET_NOFORK(pivot_root, pivot_root, BB_DIR_SBIN, BB_SUID_DROP, pivot_root))
//kbuild:lib-$(CONFIG_PIVOT_ROOT) += pivot_root.o
#include "libbb.h"
-extern int pivot_root(const char * new_root,const char * put_old);
+extern int pivot_root(const char *new_root, const char *put_old);
int pivot_root_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
int pivot_root_main(int argc, char **argv)
if (argc != 3)
bb_show_usage();
+ /* NOFORK applet. Hardly matters wrt performance, but code is trivial */
+
if (pivot_root(argv[1], argv[2]) < 0) {
/* prints "pivot_root: <strerror text>" */
bb_perror_nomsg_and_die();