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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2008-10-29T15·34+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2008-10-29T15·34+0000 |
| commit | 709b55ee0281bc2d587dff6f60ec189b010800f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 18285f86f7247c8ee638598daad8e5b5b2387f26 /src/libstore/globals.hh | |
| parent | c98ea254dcb6384b686a88657fd800ad7655e4a5 (diff) | |
* Put the chroots under /nix/var/nix/chroots to reduce the risk of
disasters involving `rm -rf' on bind mounts. Will try the definitive fix (per-process mounts, apparently possible via the CLONE_NEWNS flag in clone()) some other time.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libstore/globals.hh')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstore/globals.hh | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/globals.hh b/src/libstore/globals.hh index f650cd1b79b5..a97aa6d8b5ec 100644 --- a/src/libstore/globals.hh +++ b/src/libstore/globals.hh @@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ extern string nixLibexecDir; /* nixBinDir is the directory where the main programs are stored. */ extern string nixBinDir; +/* nixChrootsDir is the directory where we create chroot environments + (when chroot builds are enabled). We don't put these under /tmp to + prevent "rm -rf /tmp" from recursing into /nix/store via the bind + mounts in the chroots. */ +extern string nixChrootsDir; + /* Misc. global flags. */ |