Revert "Restore parent mount namespace before executing a child process"

This reverts commit a0ef21262f4d5652bfb65cfacaec01d89c475a93. This
doesn't work in 'nix run' and nix-shell because setns() fails in
multithreaded programs, and Boehm GC mark threads are uncancellable.

Fixes #2646.

3 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/build.cc b/src/libstore/build.cc
index 59abae9b90db..47ee8b48f4b4 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build.cc
@@ -2193,7 +2193,6 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
         userNamespaceSync.create();
 
         options.allowVfork = false;
-        options.restoreMountNamespace = false;
 
         Pid helper = startProcess([&]() {
 
@@ -2260,7 +2259,6 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
 #endif
     {
         options.allowVfork = !buildUser && !drv->isBuiltin();
-        options.restoreMountNamespace = false;
         pid = startProcess([&]() {
             runChild();
         }, options);
diff --git a/src/libstore/local-store.cc b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
index 5b4e7ca4ca99..485fdd691932 100644
--- a/src/libstore/local-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
@@ -366,8 +366,6 @@ void LocalStore::makeStoreWritable()
         throw SysError("getting info about the Nix store mount point");
 
     if (stat.f_flag & ST_RDONLY) {
-        saveMountNamespace();
-
         if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) == -1)
             throw SysError("setting up a private mount namespace");
 
diff --git a/src/libstore/ssh.cc b/src/libstore/ssh.cc
index cf133b57cb20..5e0e44935cca 100644
--- a/src/libstore/ssh.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/ssh.cc
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #include "ssh.hh"
-#include "affinity.hh"
 
 namespace nix {
 
@@ -35,9 +34,7 @@ std::unique_ptr<SSHMaster::Connection> SSHMaster::startCommand(const std::string
 
     auto conn = std::make_unique<Connection>();
     conn->sshPid = startProcess([&]() {
-        restoreAffinity();
         restoreSignals();
-        restoreMountNamespace();
 
         close(in.writeSide.get());
         close(out.readSide.get());