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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-08-29T11·21+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-08-29T11·21+0200
commit93a5ef0516881ec133fc5e54069add6dd64ffbdd (patch)
tree9712db5c125630ae11560a6a80561a28bbac7ffc /misc
parent1c58e13bee6715c668e93cd4ec93bc5d5fd1a4ad (diff)
nix run: Fix chroot execution
Running "nix run" with a diverted store, e.g.

  $ nix run --store local?root=/tmp/nix nixpkgs.hello

stopped working when Nix became multithreaded, because
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) doesn't work in multithreaded processes. The
obvious solution is to terminate all other threads first, but 1) there
is no way to terminate Boehm GC marker threads; and 2) it appears that
the kernel has a race where unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) will still fail for
some indeterminate amount of time after joining other threads.

So instead, "nix run" will now exec() a single-threaded helper ("nix
__run_in_chroot") that performs the actual unshare()/chroot()/exec().
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