From 4743a4da9b49d16b62c66e9f1e6094394e3e655b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 23:43:14 +0200 Subject: doc: Update description of the chroot contents. * doc/guix.texi (Build Environment Setup): Adjust description of /dev and /proc; remove footnote about /dev/shm, now obsolete. --- doc/guix.texi | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 3d76f48563..b49825fc1d 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -245,12 +245,14 @@ environment contains nothing but: @c Keep this list in sync with libstore/build.cc! ----------------------- @itemize @item -the @code{/dev} and @code{/proc} directories@footnote{On some systems -@code{/dev/shm}, which supports shared memory, is a symlink to another -directory such as @code{/run/shm}, that is @emph{not} is the chroot. -When that is the case, shared memory support is unavailable in the -chroot environment. The workaround is to make sure that @file{/dev/shm} -is directly a @code{tmpfs} mount point.}; +a minimal @code{/dev} directory, created mostly independently from the +host @code{/dev}@footnote{``Mostly'', because while the set of files +that appear in the chroot's @code{/dev} is fixed, most of these files +can only be created if the host has them.}; + +@item +the @code{/proc} directory; it only shows the container's processes +since a separate PID name space is used; @item @file{/etc/passwd} with an entry for the current user and an entry for -- cgit v1.2.3