GNU bug report logs - #62253
Fakechroot execution engine doesn’t outlive ‘exec’ calls

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Package: guix;

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

Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 11:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: 62253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62253: Fakechroot execution engine doesn’t outlive ‘exec’ calls
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:17:16 +0100

Hi,

Josselin Poiret <dev <at> 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/
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