From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: 34638@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34638] [PATCH v2 2/4] linux-container: Add 'start-child-in-container'.
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:20:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dz44qo7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu80sosv.fsf@cbaines.net> (Christopher Baines's message of "Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:26:40 +0000")
Hi!
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>>
>>> This new procedure is similar to open-pipe* in (ice-9 popen), but using
>>> run-container from (gnu build linux-container).
>>>
>>> * gnu/build/linux-container.scm (start-child-in-container): New procedure.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> +(define* (start-child-in-container command
>>> + #:key read? write?
>>> + (root 'temporary)
>>> + (mounts '())
>>> + (namespaces %namespaces)
>>> + (host-uids 1)
>>> + (extra-environment-variables '()))
>>
>> Please add a docstring. :-)
>>
>> I’d change (extra-environment-variables '()) to:
>>
>> (environment-variables (environ))
>>
>> I always find it too hard to reason about “extra” thing; it’s just more
>> convenient as an interface to specify the whole thing rather than a list
>> of “extras”.
>
> I had a go at this, but I think trying to copy the environment variables
> from the host Guix to the inferior one caused problems, at least this
> backtrace appears when calling open-inferior/container and I'm guessing
> it comes from the inferior guix.
>
> I think calling it environment-variables and having it be '() is OK, the
> only change I can see being made elsewhere is that
> open-inferior/container adds HOME=/tmp, and that's just to avoid issues
> with (guix profiles).
>
> Does that make sense?
Ah yes, defaulting to the empty list is even better.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-24 16:12 [bug#34638] [PATCH 0/4] Isolated inferiors Christopher Baines
2019-02-24 16:18 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH 1/4] utils: Add #:base-directory to call-with-temporary-directory Christopher Baines
2019-02-24 16:18 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH 2/4] linux-container: Add 'start-child-in-container' Christopher Baines
2019-03-14 18:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-19 14:16 ` Christopher Baines
2019-02-24 16:18 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH 3/4] inferior: Add a shared-directory field to <inferior> Christopher Baines
2019-02-24 16:18 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH 4/4] inferior: Add 'open-inferior/container' Christopher Baines
2019-03-14 19:35 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH 0/4] Isolated inferiors Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-19 14:04 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH v2 1/4] utils: Add #:base-directory to call-with-temporary-directory Christopher Baines
2019-04-19 14:04 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH v2 2/4] linux-container: Add 'start-child-in-container' Christopher Baines
2020-03-26 9:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-28 11:26 ` Christopher Baines
2020-03-28 12:20 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-04-19 14:04 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH v2 3/4] inferior: Add a shared-directory field to <inferior> Christopher Baines
2020-03-26 9:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-19 14:04 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH v2 4/4] inferior: Add 'open-inferior/container' Christopher Baines
2020-03-26 9:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-26 9:22 ` [bug#34638] [PATCH v2 1/4] utils: Add #:base-directory to call-with-temporary-directory Ludovic Courtès
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