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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: Re: Environment containers
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:25:50 -0400
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> "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.

Yes, of course.  I have no intention of removing those checks from the test=
s.

- Dave