[BusyBox] pivot_root on busybox-0.52 and kernels 2.4.x

[Matt Kraai]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:41:05PM -0700, Ivan Passos wrote:
> Matt Kraai wrote:
> > 
> > You need to compile against headers which define __NR_pivot_root.
> > On my system, this is done by <bits/syscall.h>, included from
> > <sys/syscall.h>, both of which are provided by (GNU) libc6-dev.
> 
> I do have libc6-dev, but I guess that my libc6 is not new enough. I 
> have glibc 2.1.3 on a Debian Potato system. Do I have to upgrade my 
> glibc to have support for pivot_root (I hope not ... :) ?? If so, to 
> what version??

I have 2.2.3-5 installed, but I'm running woody.  You might try
installing a recent kernel-headers package and seeing if that
helps.

Matt