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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-02-27T22·17+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-02-27T22·17+0100
commit3fd01b171a74d28dc8e48b9ee5f2d0e9a3915fb8 (patch)
tree42620e16ae70c2f98354f7f3bd316b0473f7030e /src/libutil/util.cc
parentc9f6232304558cbdafb14e13e316e539f5bed72e (diff)
Set up a minimal /dev in chroots
Not bind-mounting the /dev from the host also solves the problem with
/dev/shm being a symlink to something not in the chroot.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libutil/util.cc')
-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.cc7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 740d767a4ea6..b264fc5f3d13 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -386,6 +386,13 @@ Paths createDirs(const Path & path)
 }
 
 
+void createSymlink(const Path & target, const Path & link)
+{
+    if (symlink(target.c_str(), link.c_str()))
+        throw SysError(format("creating symlink from `%1%' to `%2%'") % link % target);
+}
+
+
 LogType logType = ltPretty;
 Verbosity verbosity = lvlInfo;