[+lennart] Hi,
Sam Morris <s...@robots.org.uk> writes: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:43:07PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: >> Control: severity -1 important >> Control: retitle -1 systemd makes / shared by default >> >> Re: Sam Morris 2014-02-24 <20140224122751.ga7...@traxus.robots.org.uk> >> > > I don't think we as PostgreSQL maintainers should be messing with the >> > > configuration of / to enable the testsuite. >> > >> > The tests will still break if the admin has set shared propagation on /. >> > In my own code that uses CLONE_NEWNS for the same reason, I explicitly >> > run 'mount --make-rprivate /' to bring the propagation settings into a >> > known desired state; I suggest that others do the same. >> >> The bit I was missing here is that I can run "mount --make-rprivate /" >> *inside* the CLONE_NEWNS namespace, so that it doesn't modify the >> system's global state, but just what I am seeing. (Does anyone >> actually understand these semantics?!) > > I think I had to read sharedsubtree.txt about a dozen times before I > understood it, so you're not the only one left wanting better > documentation. :) Lennart, we are considering disabling the code in systemd which makes / shared by default so that we follow the kernel default. I’d be interested in your comments on that, especially in the context of this bugreport (see http://bugs.debian.org/739593 for full history). -- Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org