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pivot_root.2: Minor change: rewrite the reference to pivot_root(8) 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2019-07-30 14:18:41 +02:00
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@ -95,10 +95,6 @@ similarly, if
is an existing mount point, its propagation type must not be
.BR MS_SHARED .
.PP
See also
.BR pivot_root (8)
for additional usage examples.
.PP
If the current root is not a mount point (e.g., after an earlier
.BR chroot (2)
or
@ -178,6 +174,9 @@ is Linux-specific and hence is not portable.
Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
.BR syscall (2).
.PP
A command-line interface for this system call is provided by
.BR pivot_root (8).
.PP
.BR pivot_root ()
allows the caller to switch to a new root filesystem while at the same time
placing the old root mount at a location under