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authorDavid Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>2015-11-03 08:32:53 -0500
committerDavid Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>2015-11-03 11:41:04 -0500
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build: container: Add feature test predicates.
* gnu/build/linux-container.scm (user-namespace-supported?, unprivileged-user-namespace-supported?, setgroups-supported?): New procedures. * tests/container.scm: Use predicates. * tests/syscalls.scm: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/build')
-rw-r--r--gnu/build/linux-container.scm22
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/linux-container.scm b/gnu/build/linux-container.scm
index 556422bc38..eb5dbf94a3 100644
--- a/gnu/build/linux-container.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/linux-container.scm
@@ -19,16 +19,36 @@
(define-module (gnu build linux-container)
#:use-module (ice-9 format)
#:use-module (ice-9 match)
+ #:use-module (ice-9 rdelim)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-98)
#:use-module (guix utils)
#:use-module (guix build utils)
#:use-module (guix build syscalls)
#:use-module ((gnu build file-systems) #:select (mount-file-system))
- #:export (%namespaces
+ #:export (user-namespace-supported?
+ unprivileged-user-namespace-supported?
+ setgroups-supported?
+ %namespaces
run-container
call-with-container
container-excursion))
+(define (user-namespace-supported?)
+ "Return #t if user namespaces are supported on this system."
+ (file-exists? "/proc/self/ns/user"))
+
+(define (unprivileged-user-namespace-supported?)
+ "Return #t if user namespaces can be created by unprivileged users."
+ (let ((userns-file "/proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone"))
+ (if (file-exists? userns-file)
+ (string=? "1" (call-with-input-file userns-file read-string))
+ #t)))
+
+(define (setgroups-supported?)
+ "Return #t if the setgroups proc file, introduced in Linux-libre 3.19,
+exists."
+ (file-exists? "/proc/self/setgroups"))
+
(define %namespaces
'(mnt pid ipc uts user net))