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Subject: bug#15209: guix 0.3 does not compile on fedora core 8 nodes
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:16:36 +0200
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Matthias Wachs <wachs@net.in.tum.de> skribis:

> +#ifndef CLONE_NEWPID
> +#define CLONE_NEWPID            0x20000000      /* New pid namespace */
> +#endif
> +#ifndef CLONE_NEWNET
> +#define CLONE_NEWNET            0x40000000      /* New network namespace=
 */
> +#endif=20
> +#ifndef CLONE_NEWIPC
> +#define CLONE_NEWIPC            0x08000000      /* New ipcs */
> +#endif=20
> +#ifndef CLONE_NEWUTS
> +#define CLONE_NEWUTS            0x04000000      /* New utsname group? */
> +#endif=20

I=E2=80=99m reluctant to adding such a patch because (1) as was already
mentioned, these features are missing only on very old kernels, and
(2) if the libc headers don=E2=80=99t define these flag, chances are that
clone(2) doesn=E2=80=99t support them anyway.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.