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bug#62253: Fakechroot execution engine doesn’t outlive ‘exec’ calls
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Ludovic Courtès |
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bug#62253: Fakechroot execution engine doesn’t outlive ‘exec’ calls |
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Date: |
Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:17:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> skribis:
> I would like to be proven wrong, but I don't think anyone has run into
> this, and there are other possible engines (that do require more
> privileges, sure). It seems quite non-trivial to fix, so this can
> probably go on the back-burner until someone actually complains (please
> do so).
The Open MPI example I gave earlier is one that I’m interested in for
work (running packs on HPC clusters that have neither unprivileged user
namespaces nor Singularity¹). It might be that we can work around the
problem though, we’ll see…
Ludo’.
¹ https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2020/05/faster-relocatable-packs-with-fakechroot/