Hi!
As mentioned on IRC, running a daemon from a guix relocatable pack on a
foreign distro using the user namespace feature is troublesome: it looks
as if the daemon "loses" (its view of) the file-system once the parent
process that creates the daemon exits.
I'm attatching a package description f
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:
Hi!
I tried the hint from Ludovic to use MS_PRIVATE in the attached patch
and that works for me; not sure if we want a test and even less sure how
to write that...
Janneke
>From fd3104608c3fa6a2375b6c7df0862e5479976b39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jan (janneke) Nieu
Hello!
As discussed on IRC, my initial advice about MS_PRIVATE was misguided.
The real issue is the “rm_rf (new_root);” call, which removes the root
directory and thus leaves child processes (the daemon) with nothing.
The attached patch adds a test loosely based on yours and a fix for
that. The
Ludovic Courtès writes:
Hi!
> As discussed on IRC, my initial advice about MS_PRIVATE was misguided.
> The real issue is the “rm_rf (new_root);” call, which removes the root
> directory and thus leaves child processes (the daemon) with nothing.
Yes, I'm not entirely sure what I thought to see ye
Hi,
Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
[...]
>> The attached patch adds a test loosely based on yours and a fix for
>> that. The fix (for the “userns” engine) is to make NEW_ROOT a tmpfs,
>> such that upon completion, all we need to do is to unmount it and remove
>> it; it l
Ludovic Courtès writes:
Hello,
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> If you confirm that it works for you and looks reasonable, we can apply
>>> it.
>>
>> Yes, this works. The test and also my reproducer now work fine.
>
> Thanks for checking, I pushed the fi
