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Subject: bug#21410: Environment containers
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 20:24:04 +0100
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To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
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"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> I think it is /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone, but I don't
> know what the contents are exactly.  0 when off, 1 when on?  Can
> someone on Debian confirm?
>
> If we can get the test suite passing, I'd like to extract these user
> namespace presence tests to a procedure that 'guix environment' can
> use to give the user an informative error message in these cases.

That would be perfect.

The test machinery would still need to test them explicitly, though, to
mark tests as skipped instead of failed.

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