Subject: [bug#54997] [PATCH 00/12] Add "least authority" program wrapper

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:29:39 +0200

Ludovic Courtès schreef op do 28-04-2022 om 00:01 [+0200]:
> > Also, having to do fork, waitpid and primitive-fork seems rather
> > low-level to me, so I prefer moving this code into somewhere like
> > (gnu build SOMEWHERE) or to keep the old make-forkexec-
> > constructor/container code.
> 
> ‘primitive-fork’ and ‘waitpid’ calls are in (gnu build linux-
> container)
> right now so I guess we’re fine?

Their use in (gnu build linux-container) seems fine to me, but their
use in %ipfs-activation doesn't:

> +    #~(let ((pid (primitive-fork)))
> +        (if (zero? pid)
> +            (dynamic-wind
> +              (const #t)
> +              (lambda ()
> +                [...] (execl #$(ipfs-binary config) #$@args)))
> +              (lambda ()
> +                (primitive-exit 127)))

Greetings,
Maxime.