GNU bug report logs - #54557
“fakechroot” execution engine doesn’t work for Bash

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 54557-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 54557-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Philippe Swartvagher <philippe.swartvagher <at> inria.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#54557: “fakechroot” execution
 engine doesn’t work for Bash
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:06:20 +0200

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> I'd be OK with --without-bash-malloc; it seems we'll pay a bit in terms
> of Bash performance in exchange for better memory usage.  It also brings
> benefits such as solving this issue and may benefit from
> advances/bugfixes to glibc's malloc in the future, if there are any.

We might actually benefit from the improvements made in glibc’s malloc
over the years (it’s more actively developed than that of Bash), who
knows.

Anyway, pushed to ‘core-updates’ as
c6b5161e97ed1010d61331874b09c3231af3b1f9.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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